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[Renee Gracie]
Ever since I was thirteen...

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...all I wanted to do was
to be a race car driver.

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[crowd cheering in the distance]

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[cars revving]

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[reporter] And there's a new
face in V8 motor racing

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and she's determined
to be a force in the sport.

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[crowd cheering]

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[reporter] Renee Gracie
will make history this weekend.

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She's the first female...

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[reporter]
Competing in the pinnacle

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of Australian motorsport.

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[reporter] The horrendous crash
at the Top of the Mountain.

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[reporter] She's
destined to become

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Australia's first female
V8 Supercar driver.

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[indistinct shouting]

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[indistinct shouting]

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[Renee] Motorsport's
the only sport

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where people can compete
male or female.

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You can't tell the difference

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between a boy and
a girl on the track.

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But there had been no full-time
female Supercar driver ever.

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[Renee] Everyone wanted to
know if I was going to be it.

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[Renee] How's it going?

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- G'day, how are ya?
- Good.

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[upbeat music]

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[Renee] My name
is Renee Gracie.

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I used to race V8 Supercars.

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I am currently
an OnlyFans model

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and I'm an adult
content creator.

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OnlyFans is basically
a social media platform.

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Think of it like an
Instagram, a Facebook.

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Except you can set yourself
up to have a subscription

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and then that unlocks a whole
world of explicit content.

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I do everything.
Solo videos. Boy-girl videos.

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I do girl-girl videos,
armpit licking, toe sucking.

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You name it,
it's being done.

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Being the ex-racing car driver,
slash Supercar driver,

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turned porn star,

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I think I can count
on two things

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for my OnlyFans
subscribers to like.

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And that's me.

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I think they like me
and then motorsport.

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I think combining the two worlds
is the ultimate dream.

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[Renee] Good boy.
[dog panting]

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[Renee] The main thing
that I always get asked,

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on my OnlyFans page is
when I'm going back racing.

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[sighing]

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There's a lot of things I
don't miss about motorsport.

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I think the political
side of things,

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the media and the pressure

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and the expectation
to always be perfect.

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Driving the car to
the absolute point

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where I couldn't physically
go faster anymore.

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I was at my limit and that's,

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that was what made me
fall in love with motorsport.

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[Renee] It all started

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on a family holiday
at Hamilton Island.

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My sister and my mum
wanted to go paragliding.

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Fun fact, I hate heights.

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Heights is not my thing.
Um, so I refused.

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I'm like, absolutely not.
I'm not doing it.

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Anyway, my dad, thank God,

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didn't want to go on
the paraglider either.

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So he's like, let's you and I
go find something to do.

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Found a pamphlet that said,

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'Hamilton Island
Go Karting Track'.

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We went out first tandem,
so I could be with Dad.

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Came back in and I was like,

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can I go on my own?
I don't want to go with him.

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Like, how embarrassing,
he's so shit.

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So I asked if I
could go by myself

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and I was like
right on the cut off.

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You had to be thirteen
but I was only twelve.

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They let me go out
by myself in my own Go Kart.

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Renee just takes off,
like there's no tomorrow.

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[Go Kart accelerating]
[upbeat music]

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[Renee] So I overtook Dad,
like, twice.

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I thought, this is definitely
related to weight.

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I'm heavier than her,
so I've got to be slower.

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That's, that's all it can be.

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[Renee] Dad's
looking at me like,

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oh, she must be in a better,
faster Go Kart than me.

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Something's wrong with mine.

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Changed Go Karts over,
started lapping him again.

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[Ray Gracie] So I started
to try and chase her

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and I just couldn't catch her,
and she was just so fast.

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[Renee] And I was just hooked.
I love this.

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Like, I don't want
to do anything else.

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She says, this is really good.

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Is this a sport? Can we do this?

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[Renee] When we got home
from Hamilton Island

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I nagged Dad,
can we go Go Karting?

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Is there a Go Kart
track around?

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We actually watched the race

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to see what we were
getting involved in.

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That was a real shock.

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It was chaos to be honest.

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I literally had a heart attack.

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Kids were like rolling
over and were, like,

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thrown out of Go Karts.

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[Ray] I looked at her and I
said, "You can't be serious?

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"You're not going
to fucking do this!"

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I was like, yeah, this
is exactly what I want to do.

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She's going ape shit. She
was like - this is fantastic.

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This is what we're going to do.

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I was like so excited.

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[Renee] From that moment on

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it was just all I could
think about,

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all I spoke about.

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It was just Go Karting.

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Mum was not happy.

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Her concern was the
safety side of things,

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but I was already
obsessed with it.

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So I started
nagging my dad.

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All I wanted
was a Go Kart.

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I went onto my dad's computer

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and I just typed in Go Kart
and then I pressed 'enter'

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and then I just left it open on
his screen, like, accidentally.

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[Ray] Then we decided
to dip our toe in

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and get a
second-hand Kart,

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and a second-hand engine.

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We didn't have a lot
of money for Go Karting.

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I remember the first guy
we went to buy his Go Kart

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and he looks at me and
he goes, "Is this for a girl?"

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I went, "Yeah".

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"Sorry mate, I'm not
going to waste it on a girl".

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I went, "Oh, okay".

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I think we've just got
a bit of an indication

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of the things that we're going
to be up against here.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Ray] We started racing
junior level at that stage.

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[Renee] I was probably one of
the only female drivers there.

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It was just a real intense
father and son sport.

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[Ray] Most of the kids
that were racing

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were racing because
of their fathers.

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Their dads wanted
them to do it,

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where Renee wanted to do it

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and she was
dragging me along.

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Unfortunately my mechanic
for a lot of it was my dad,

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who is absolutely not qualified
to be a mechanic

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in any way,
shape or form.

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My dad is, I call
him a pen pusher.

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He's an accountant. He didn't
own a screwdriver at home.

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[Ray] She got an old
bike helmet, cheap suit,

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with a bloody Kart that
was a piece of crap -

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mechanic by an idiot.

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We realised we didn't have a
bloody clue what we were doing.

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[Renee] We got a lot of
commentary in the beginning.

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You shouldn't be here,
girls don't belong on track.

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[Ray] Wasting your time,
wasting your money,

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not a sport for girls.

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You could hear fathers saying,
"Don't you let her beat you".

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[man] Get in front of her.

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[Ray] You could hear them
priming the boys

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to be really aggressive.

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[man] Put her
in her bloody place.

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[Renee] Guys wouldn't
let me pass them.

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People were basically
just not braking

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and running straight into me.

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[upbeat music]

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[Renee] I got crashed into,
I got taken out.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Ray] The boys
ganged up on Renee.

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They worked together
against her.

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Destroyed our Kart.

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It was a, a nightmare
of a weekend.

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I think she cried all the
way home from there.

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Four hours of crying.

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And I said,
"Well, this is what you -

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you want to keep doing this?

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"This is what you're going
to be up against."

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He basically just said,

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"Just tell everyone
to get stuffed.

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"You aren't the same
as everybody else.

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"They don't think you
deserve to be here."

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You want to do it?

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Stand up for yourself.

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[Renee] I just knew
that I wanted

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to give everything
I had to go racing.

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[Go Kart revving]

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[Renee] Dad and I had
every excuse under the sun

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to give up
but we chose not to.

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We started a race and I
think I was in fourth or fifth.

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And then sure enough
I just feel this Go Kart

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run straight over
the top of me.

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[skidding sounds]
[crashing sounds]

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[Renee] And I just saw red.

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Hopped out of my Go Kart.
Walked up to him.

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Opened up his visor,
grabbed him by the neck

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and punched him straight
through the visor of his helmet.

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The boy's father went ballistic.

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And he abused her
for twenty minutes,

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calling her every name
under the sun.

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If they swore at me,
I'd swear back,

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I'd stand up to them,
I'd square up to them.

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Push, shove, point, poke,
flip off, you name it,

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I'd do whatever I have to.

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That's just the levels and the
extents that I had to go to.

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Never the instigator,
always the retaliator.

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[gentle music]

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[Ray] When she was growing up

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Renee was feisty -
is a good word.

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Yep.
Feisty.

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She got a nickname
right at the very beginning

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when she was about two.

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She's got the smile of an angel
and the bite of a crocodile.

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And that continued through.

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Every year from day care
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we'd have to go to the
Headmaster for something

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at least once a year.

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[sighing]

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We go back to preschool.

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There was an argument
over a tricycle

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and a boy tried to
push her off the tricycle.

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So, he pushed her off.

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She stood up and says, "Yes,
you can have the tricycle."

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Picked it up and smacked
him over the head with it.

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So we were always careful

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not to encourage them
to do anything wrong.

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But if someone does
the wrong thing,

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well you've got to
stand up for yourself.

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[Renee] I just grew
this like thick skin

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to always stand up for myself.

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That really changed everything
in regards to my results.

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[Renee] I know that
if I don't crash...

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...I can actually finish.

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[Renee] From that point on

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I was pretty much in the
top four of Australia.

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I always knew that I was sort
of going to be up the front.

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[upbeat music]
[crowd cheering]

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[Ray] A guy called
Chris Jewell approached us

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and said he thought
there was an opportunity

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for a female driver
to go racing cars.

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Renee was 14
when we first, uh,

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created our relationship.

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[Renee] Yeah it was good,
we weren't -

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only like 20 minutes
or something, so...

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[Jewell] She was very green
and very young

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but she is very driven, very
focused, incredibly competitive.

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There's never been a successful
full-time female

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at championship level.

244
00:14:38.013 --> 00:14:40.313
So, we devised a career
management plan

245
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to try and get a female to
ultimately aspire to race

246
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advanced Supercar
championship level.

247
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Racing driver, Renee Gracie,
will make history this weekend.

248
00:14:50.172 --> 00:14:51.512
She's the first female
to compete in

249
00:14:51.612 --> 00:14:53.872
the Porsche Carrera Cup.

250
00:14:53.972 --> 00:14:56.512
[Ray] Chris got the sponsorship
from Fujitsu

251
00:14:56.612 --> 00:14:58.152
and they've got her
into Porsche.

252
00:14:58.252 --> 00:15:00.352
[reporter] The Porsche Carrera
Cup will, for the first time,

253
00:15:00.452 --> 00:15:02.791
have a full-time
female race driver.

254
00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:04.231
[Renee] Realistic goals
is just to learn.

255
00:15:04.331 --> 00:15:07.471
I don't want to make a
fool of myself, obviously.

256
00:15:07.571 --> 00:15:08.911
It was into the
bloody deep end.

257
00:15:09.011 --> 00:15:11.771
You just got to learn how
to swim real quick.

258
00:15:14.731 --> 00:15:17.870
[commentator] Renee Gracie, the
teenager for the Fujitsu team.

259
00:15:17.970 --> 00:15:20.070
[commentator] This is the
first car that Renee has driven.

260
00:15:20.170 --> 00:15:22.070
Pretty tough job jumping
one of these things.

261
00:15:22.170 --> 00:15:24.470
They're very, very
tricky to drive.

262
00:15:24.570 --> 00:15:25.750
[Renee] I was pretty much
straight away, like,

263
00:15:25.850 --> 00:15:28.230
passing people and
being really quick.

264
00:15:28.330 --> 00:15:29.629
[commentator]
Showing great speed.

265
00:15:29.729 --> 00:15:32.109
[Ray] Then she became the
first girl to be on the podium

266
00:15:32.209 --> 00:15:33.869
in Porsche as well.

267
00:15:33.969 --> 00:15:36.069
[commentator] And that's Renee's
first professional class podium

268
00:15:36.169 --> 00:15:38.109
in her career.

269
00:15:38.209 --> 00:15:38.989
[Renee] I had the best time

270
00:15:39.089 --> 00:15:42.189
of my whole entire life of
motorsport racing in Porsche.

271
00:15:42.289 --> 00:15:43.788
I was doing what I loved doing.

272
00:15:43.888 --> 00:15:45.948
[Damien Smy] I think the first
time I probably heard the name

273
00:15:46.048 --> 00:15:49.588
Renee Gracie, was when
she was in Carrera Cup.

274
00:15:49.688 --> 00:15:52.308
Uh, my name's Damien Smy
and I'm the Editor in Chief

275
00:15:52.408 --> 00:15:54.988
of Australia's biggest
motorsport website.

276
00:15:55.088 --> 00:15:57.707
I think what's amazing
about Renee's story is

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the diversity in motorsport
is almost zero.

278
00:16:01.727 --> 00:16:03.387
In almost every level.

279
00:16:03.487 --> 00:16:06.307
So, the spotlight was
on her as a woman.

280
00:16:06.407 --> 00:16:08.747
Only a teenage woman
at that stage as well.

281
00:16:08.847 --> 00:16:11.626
[commentator] Renee Gracie -
her last round of Carrera Cup.

282
00:16:11.726 --> 00:16:14.206
She's moving on
to V8 Supercars.

283
00:16:15.206 --> 00:16:16.746
[reporter] After two years,

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00:16:16.846 --> 00:16:18.746
the twenty-year-old has
become the first woman

285
00:16:18.846 --> 00:16:23.146
since Leanne Tander in 2001
to race full-time in V8s.

286
00:16:23.246 --> 00:16:24.946
It's pretty cool.
I can't believe it

287
00:16:25.046 --> 00:16:27.045
but I think I've
earned my spot.

288
00:16:27.885 --> 00:16:29.545
[Smy] Renee moving
to Supercars,

289
00:16:29.645 --> 00:16:31.425
uh, it's a pretty big jump.

290
00:16:31.525 --> 00:16:34.105
[crowd cheering]

291
00:16:34.205 --> 00:16:36.925
[Smy] Supercars is the pinnacle
of Australian motorsport.

292
00:16:39.684 --> 00:16:43.904
It's the most competitive,
fiercely contested series.

293
00:16:44.004 --> 00:16:46.144
It's Supercars above
anything else in Australia

294
00:16:46.244 --> 00:16:48.924
in terms of motorsport
that's watched on TV.

295
00:16:59.043 --> 00:17:01.443
[John Ruggiero] I know why
Renee was chosen.

296
00:17:05.363 --> 00:17:06.043
My name's John Ruggiero

297
00:17:06.043 --> 00:17:09.122
and I'm a Managing Director
of Push Talent Management.

298
00:17:10.682 --> 00:17:15.082
At the time sport was
rushing for inclusion.

299
00:17:16.962 --> 00:17:20.782
They needed to bring in
a woman - into that seat.

300
00:17:20.882 --> 00:17:24.261
So, Renee was thrust
into Supercars,

301
00:17:24.361 --> 00:17:26.821
because she was
the only female.

302
00:17:26.921 --> 00:17:29.061
It was probably too soon.

303
00:17:29.161 --> 00:17:31.161
But, they had to
do something.

304
00:17:32.521 --> 00:17:35.940
[Smy] A woman in
motorsport in Australia...

305
00:17:36.040 --> 00:17:38.480
She had to prove her ability.

306
00:17:40.120 --> 00:17:41.340
[Ruggiero] What we
haven't seen is a woman

307
00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.220
really being able to
compete seriously,

308
00:17:44.320 --> 00:17:46.400
to challenge for a
podium, let's say.

309
00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:49.659
There was this
amazing fascination

310
00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.119
around whether Renee
could be that person.

311
00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.419
[Renee] The very first time
I drove a V8 Supercar,

312
00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:06.278
I remember thinking, oh my gosh,
this is out of control.

313
00:18:08.238 --> 00:18:09.458
The stuff that
I used to focus on,

314
00:18:09.558 --> 00:18:11.938
as a driver in Porsche,
the car could always do.

315
00:18:12.038 --> 00:18:13.418
But when I was trying
to do that in a Supercar

316
00:18:13.518 --> 00:18:15.518
the car wasn't doing it.

317
00:18:17.318 --> 00:18:19.657
I realised quite quickly
that it was a huge leap

318
00:18:19.757 --> 00:18:21.337
and I really should
have had another year

319
00:18:21.437 --> 00:18:24.217
of experience under my belt.

320
00:18:24.317 --> 00:18:26.977
I started going to the
gym six days a week.

321
00:18:27.077 --> 00:18:30.097
The main thing was upper body
strength for gear changing,

322
00:18:30.197 --> 00:18:32.196
fighting the steering wheel.

323
00:18:32.876 --> 00:18:34.096
Leg strength as well.

324
00:18:34.196 --> 00:18:36.056
Every brake application
in a Supercar

325
00:18:36.156 --> 00:18:39.176
is like an eighty-kilo
leg press.

326
00:18:39.276 --> 00:18:42.696
I worked really hard to be on
par with most of the males

327
00:18:42.796 --> 00:18:44.056
I was racing against.

328
00:18:44.156 --> 00:18:45.376
[reporter]
Renee has teamed up

329
00:18:45.476 --> 00:18:47.535
with V8s veteran and
Bathurst Champion,

330
00:18:47.635 --> 00:18:51.375
Paul Morris this year, and there
could be no better mentor.

331
00:18:51.475 --> 00:18:54.775
I always find that women
learn a lot better than guys.

332
00:18:54.875 --> 00:18:56.855
Guys think they know it all.

333
00:18:56.955 --> 00:18:58.615
[Renee] When I first started
in the development series

334
00:18:58.715 --> 00:19:01.194
I was racing with
Paul Morris Motorsport.

335
00:19:02.754 --> 00:19:05.574
[commentator]
Morris, go, go, go, go, go, go!

336
00:19:05.674 --> 00:19:06.774
[crashing]

337
00:19:06.874 --> 00:19:09.534
[reporter] You were voted the
dirtiest driver on the paddock.

338
00:19:09.634 --> 00:19:10.894
How do you feel about that?

339
00:19:10.994 --> 00:19:12.374
[Morris] I'll probably have
to go have a shower.

340
00:19:12.474 --> 00:19:14.213
[Renee] My first
impressions of Paul

341
00:19:14.313 --> 00:19:16.093
is that I was scared of him.

342
00:19:16.193 --> 00:19:18.773
He was the team owner,
team boss.

343
00:19:18.873 --> 00:19:21.513
He had also just won
the Bathurst 1000.

344
00:19:24.833 --> 00:19:27.613
I knew that he loved to fight.

345
00:19:27.713 --> 00:19:28.972
[commentator]
He gets out of the car.

346
00:19:29.072 --> 00:19:32.492
Oh no, he's put the biffo
back into the bingle.

347
00:19:32.592 --> 00:19:35.012
[Renee] I knew that
he was controversial.

348
00:19:35.112 --> 00:19:36.452
He's picked the wrong bloke
to have messed with.

349
00:19:36.552 --> 00:19:39.092
So when the opportunity
arises I'll repay the favour,

350
00:19:39.192 --> 00:19:40.492
no problems, so...

351
00:19:40.592 --> 00:19:42.251
[Renee] I feel like that's
why he chose to run me.

352
00:19:42.351 --> 00:19:44.691
He didn't care about
people's opinions.

353
00:19:44.791 --> 00:19:46.371
[Morris] I reckon all the other
guys are a bunch of pussies,

354
00:19:46.471 --> 00:19:48.731
so it's good.

355
00:19:48.831 --> 00:19:52.151
I think the cracks started to
form relatively quickly.

356
00:19:54.431 --> 00:19:55.971
I didn't have a
driving training coach,

357
00:19:56.071 --> 00:19:57.690
I didn't have an engineer,
I just had Paul.

358
00:19:57.790 --> 00:20:00.250
[Morris] Squirt the fuel in -
number one.

359
00:20:00.350 --> 00:20:02.330
[Renee] It just wasn't
enough for me

360
00:20:02.430 --> 00:20:05.970
because I was
learning these cars.

361
00:20:06.070 --> 00:20:08.890
I wanted more information,
I wanted to see, like, my times

362
00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:12.809
and I can actively try to be
better while I'm in the car.

363
00:20:12.909 --> 00:20:14.169
I complained
about it a little bit

364
00:20:14.269 --> 00:20:16.269
and just said I
need more help.

365
00:20:17.309 --> 00:20:19.449
He was like, what you're
asking for is too much

366
00:20:19.549 --> 00:20:22.889
and you shouldn't need that
to be a better driver.

367
00:20:22.989 --> 00:20:24.968
The way he made me feel -

368
00:20:25.068 --> 00:20:26.928
I needed everything
and I was hard work

369
00:20:27.028 --> 00:20:29.408
and I wanted the world...

370
00:20:29.508 --> 00:20:31.568
To make it out like
I was high maintenance

371
00:20:31.668 --> 00:20:33.708
or like a 'princess'
for example.

372
00:20:36.588 --> 00:20:38.487
[Ray] She wouldn't
tell me a lot,

373
00:20:38.587 --> 00:20:41.127
because I wasn't
really dealing with him.

374
00:20:41.227 --> 00:20:43.967
The fathers that are paying
get to be involved,

375
00:20:44.067 --> 00:20:46.207
but fathers whose
daughters are fully sponsored

376
00:20:46.307 --> 00:20:49.167
are more of a nuisance
than a value, so,

377
00:20:49.267 --> 00:20:51.607
you don't tend to be
going as much as you,

378
00:20:51.707 --> 00:20:53.706
as you did before.

379
00:20:57.386 --> 00:21:00.086
[Renee] It was about two weeks
before the Adelaide 500,

380
00:21:00.186 --> 00:21:01.566
my first race in a Supercar.

381
00:21:01.666 --> 00:21:04.086
I've never raced here before
so I don't know what to expect.

382
00:21:04.186 --> 00:21:05.246
[reporter]
...what you're seeing out there.

383
00:21:05.346 --> 00:21:07.125
Yeah, very. It's taken
a bit of a weight off.

384
00:21:07.225 --> 00:21:08.925
[Renee] I was coming
from an interview,

385
00:21:09.025 --> 00:21:10.245
going to another interview.

386
00:21:10.345 --> 00:21:12.685
I was texting my mum and I
was like, I'm running so late.

387
00:21:12.785 --> 00:21:15.285
And I said, "Can you just
make me a quick sandwich?

388
00:21:15.385 --> 00:21:17.085
"Chuck it in a Ziploc bag
or something

389
00:21:17.185 --> 00:21:19.185
"and I'm just
going to get it and go."

390
00:21:20.065 --> 00:21:22.064
She's like, "Yep, no worries."

391
00:21:24.064 --> 00:21:28.704
I got home and there was
the sandwich in the kitchen...

392
00:21:29.984 --> 00:21:32.224
...and I'm like, "Mum!"

393
00:21:34.863 --> 00:21:36.043
My gut was just telling me

394
00:21:36.143 --> 00:21:39.623
that something was like
seriously, seriously wrong.

395
00:21:43.263 --> 00:21:44.283
And then I looked outside

396
00:21:44.383 --> 00:21:47.043
and my mum was
laying on the ground.

397
00:21:47.143 --> 00:21:51.602
[tense dramatic music]

398
00:21:51.702 --> 00:21:53.642
[Renee] I got a bit closer
and I saw blood.

399
00:21:53.742 --> 00:21:54.402
[phone ringing]

400
00:21:54.502 --> 00:21:56.162
[Ray] And I got a
phone call from Renee,

401
00:21:56.262 --> 00:21:57.642
which is like a
mad panic phone call,

402
00:21:57.742 --> 00:21:58.562
"Mum's fallen over."

403
00:21:58.662 --> 00:22:01.962
The ambulance arrived
within like five minutes.

404
00:22:02.062 --> 00:22:06.521
She sort of came to, I was like,
"Mum, Mum, it's me!"

405
00:22:06.621 --> 00:22:08.321
She looked at me and she's like,
"Who the hell are you?"

406
00:22:08.421 --> 00:22:10.241
She didn't even
recognise who I was.

407
00:22:10.341 --> 00:22:12.521
It was like she had never
seen a human before.

408
00:22:12.621 --> 00:22:14.741
She was present but
she wasn't Mum.

409
00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:20.200
We went to the hospital

410
00:22:20.300 --> 00:22:22.560
and that's when we found out
that it was way worse

411
00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:25.240
than what we could
have ever expected.

412
00:22:25.340 --> 00:22:27.640
[machines beeping]

413
00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:29.240
[Renee] They showed us
a scan of her brain

414
00:22:29.340 --> 00:22:31.599
and just said this is one
of the worst brain bleeds

415
00:22:31.699 --> 00:22:32.559
we've ever seen.

416
00:22:32.659 --> 00:22:35.039
[Ray] She'd had a
major brain aneurysm

417
00:22:35.139 --> 00:22:37.119
on the right-hand side
of her brain.

418
00:22:37.219 --> 00:22:40.379
And if she comes out
of this it'll be a miracle.

419
00:22:42.699 --> 00:22:44.919
[Ray] That was around about
two or three weeks before

420
00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:48.058
Renee's first race
in the Dunlop Series.

421
00:22:49.818 --> 00:22:52.358
[reporter] The countdown
to the V8 Supercars

422
00:22:52.458 --> 00:22:54.158
first race of the year is on,

423
00:22:54.258 --> 00:22:57.538
with teams arriving in
Adelaide for the Clipsal 500.

424
00:22:59.617 --> 00:23:01.157
[Renee] Mum hadn't woken
up from the coma,

425
00:23:01.257 --> 00:23:03.357
so we were expecting her
not to make it.

426
00:23:03.457 --> 00:23:06.497
I pretty much got told to,
man up!

427
00:23:09.177 --> 00:23:12.437
We went out for qualifying
and that was the first time

428
00:23:12.537 --> 00:23:15.936
being at a track,
racing a Supercar.

429
00:23:20.576 --> 00:23:22.856
[Renee] And then when
I exited pit lane...

430
00:23:24.816 --> 00:23:27.195
...the dash went blank.

431
00:23:27.295 --> 00:23:28.475
[silence]

432
00:23:28.575 --> 00:23:30.975
[Renee] I could see nothing. I
had no idea what gear I was in.

433
00:23:33.175 --> 00:23:35.175
Couldn't see when
to shift gears.

434
00:23:37.295 --> 00:23:39.295
You can't see if
there's a warning.

435
00:23:40.775 --> 00:23:43.334
I was radioing pretty
much straight away.

436
00:23:45.534 --> 00:23:47.774
No response, no reply.

437
00:23:49.254 --> 00:23:52.714
I just remember feeling like,
confused and flustered.

438
00:23:52.814 --> 00:23:54.954
Paul was the one who
got back to me saying,

439
00:23:55.054 --> 00:23:56.913
"Yep, I made it like
that for a reason,

440
00:23:57.013 --> 00:23:59.533
"just go for it and
fucking press on."

441
00:24:02.373 --> 00:24:05.233
So it was programmed
so I could see nothing

442
00:24:05.333 --> 00:24:07.433
once I was out of the pits.

443
00:24:07.533 --> 00:24:10.692
[tense music]
[cars revving]

444
00:24:12.372 --> 00:24:13.872
[Renee] And when I hopped
out of the car,

445
00:24:13.972 --> 00:24:15.152
I walked straight
over to Chris.

446
00:24:15.252 --> 00:24:16.752
"You turned the
fucking dash off,

447
00:24:16.852 --> 00:24:17.992
"I couldn't see anything."

448
00:24:18.092 --> 00:24:20.152
And I just lost it.

449
00:24:20.252 --> 00:24:22.872
Paul came over
as I was blowing up.

450
00:24:22.972 --> 00:24:24.911
And he said, "All the good
drivers don't need it,

451
00:24:25.011 --> 00:24:25.831
"so you don't need it.

452
00:24:25.931 --> 00:24:27.471
"You don't need numbers
to tell you what to do

453
00:24:27.571 --> 00:24:28.191
"and how to go fast.

454
00:24:28.291 --> 00:24:31.031
"You should just
want to go fast."

455
00:24:31.131 --> 00:24:32.511
I don't even know
where I qualified.

456
00:24:32.611 --> 00:24:34.631
I'm pretty sure
it was like last.

457
00:24:34.731 --> 00:24:37.391
I had to answer to Fujitsu
and to all my sponsors,

458
00:24:37.491 --> 00:24:40.390
and say why I had such a
horrible qualifying session.

459
00:24:40.490 --> 00:24:44.550
And that was the first race
we had together as a team

460
00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:47.490
and that was pretty much
the start of the end.

461
00:24:48.770 --> 00:24:53.069
[slow tense music]

462
00:24:53.169 --> 00:24:55.869
[Renee] Media and my image
started to grow.

463
00:24:55.969 --> 00:24:57.629
Attention on me
started to grow.

464
00:24:57.729 --> 00:24:59.509
[Todd Sampson] Renee,
how does it feel to be a woman

465
00:24:59.609 --> 00:25:02.309
competing brilliantly in a
male dominated sport?

466
00:25:02.409 --> 00:25:05.149
Um, well I'm always used to
being the only female

467
00:25:05.249 --> 00:25:08.068
so it's nothing really out
of the ordinary for me.

468
00:25:08.168 --> 00:25:11.708
[Renee] Being the only female -
it became apparent to everybody

469
00:25:11.808 --> 00:25:14.268
that there was extra
attention on me,

470
00:25:14.368 --> 00:25:16.628
comparative
to the other drivers.

471
00:25:16.728 --> 00:25:18.908
I'm not going to walk around
with a suit around my waist

472
00:25:19.008 --> 00:25:19.707
and in a bikini top.

473
00:25:19.807 --> 00:25:22.427
I'm here to race. I'm as serious
as any of the other guys.

474
00:25:22.527 --> 00:25:25.387
It was never really a
thing that I strived for,

475
00:25:25.487 --> 00:25:27.067
to be the only female.

476
00:25:27.167 --> 00:25:30.307
I didn't really care,
but obviously the media did.

477
00:25:30.407 --> 00:25:34.026
The fast and female -
great woman.

478
00:25:34.126 --> 00:25:36.986
She's taking it to the men
at the Grand Prix.

479
00:25:37.086 --> 00:25:39.546
Her name's Renee Gracie.
There she is.

480
00:25:39.646 --> 00:25:43.546
[Renee] I was on TV and there
was a lot more people watching.

481
00:25:43.646 --> 00:25:47.806
Looks was a huge part
of everything that I did.

482
00:25:52.045 --> 00:25:54.545
[reporter] Renee Gracie looks
like she belongs on the catwalk

483
00:25:54.645 --> 00:25:57.225
but it's the racetrack
that she calls home.

484
00:25:57.325 --> 00:25:59.625
[reporter] Renee's also
a marketing dream,

485
00:25:59.725 --> 00:26:03.344
and her good looks
secure sponsorship deals.

486
00:26:03.444 --> 00:26:04.164
[Renee] It was embedded in me

487
00:26:04.164 --> 00:26:06.664
that I needed
to look a certain way.

488
00:26:06.764 --> 00:26:09.824
That came from my manager,
my sponsors

489
00:26:09.924 --> 00:26:11.144
and all the people internally,

490
00:26:11.244 --> 00:26:14.384
telling me to be this
perfect looking woman.

491
00:26:14.484 --> 00:26:16.543
A hundred percent
a marketing ploy

492
00:26:16.643 --> 00:26:18.103
to get people coming to
get hats and merchandise

493
00:26:18.203 --> 00:26:21.443
and to get people coming to
the racetracks and watching.

494
00:26:23.523 --> 00:26:26.743
It was very clear that Supercars
was more concerned about

495
00:26:26.843 --> 00:26:31.102
having a good-looking female
racing car driver in Australia

496
00:26:31.202 --> 00:26:32.782
that was going to make
everyone lots of money.

497
00:26:32.882 --> 00:26:35.062
That was,
that was my job.

498
00:26:35.162 --> 00:26:37.422
I've been blessed with
some great sponsors

499
00:26:37.522 --> 00:26:38.422
and some great people.

500
00:26:38.522 --> 00:26:40.782
[Renee] But that took away from
my Development Series program,

501
00:26:40.882 --> 00:26:43.662
as I was still learning
how to drive a V8 Supercar.

502
00:26:43.762 --> 00:26:44.541
[reporter] This season,

503
00:26:44.641 --> 00:26:47.541
she moved into the V8 Supercars
Development Series,

504
00:26:47.641 --> 00:26:50.541
but rising through the ranks
hasn't been easy.

505
00:26:50.641 --> 00:26:53.981
It was really starting to
interfere with her progress.

506
00:26:54.081 --> 00:26:55.981
Renee Gracie,
come and join us.

507
00:26:56.081 --> 00:26:59.020
Hey Renee.
Now you're behind the wheel.

508
00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:00.460
Tell us what that's like.

509
00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:02.540
[commentator] And Renee
Gracie's in the gravel.

510
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:04.420
Her education continues.

511
00:27:04.520 --> 00:27:07.780
[man laughing]

512
00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:12.459
It was one-percent racing
and the rest was all bullshit.

513
00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:15.939
Nothing was relevant to what
I originally loved doing

514
00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:17.179
and that was racing.

515
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:19.539
This year was a pretty big
learning curve.

516
00:27:19.639 --> 00:27:20.419
Finished this race off,

517
00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:22.059
obviously not with
the best result.

518
00:27:22.159 --> 00:27:24.979
I think for the best drivers,

519
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.678
the background noise
doesn't matter.

520
00:27:29.438 --> 00:27:31.098
Elite sports people
don't get affected

521
00:27:31.198 --> 00:27:32.898
by what's going on outside.

522
00:27:32.998 --> 00:27:36.198
So I think that shouldn't
make a difference.

523
00:27:40.198 --> 00:27:41.057
You've provided...

524
00:27:41.157 --> 00:27:42.857
[Renee] Chris was starting
to become pushy

525
00:27:42.957 --> 00:27:46.097
and more demanding
with how I looked.

526
00:27:46.197 --> 00:27:47.617
One week,
I might have come,

527
00:27:47.717 --> 00:27:48.897
and I might have
looked a bit heavier

528
00:27:48.997 --> 00:27:51.057
and Chris would say, "Hey,
have you put on weight?

529
00:27:51.157 --> 00:27:54.257
"Your face is looking chubby."

530
00:27:54.357 --> 00:27:55.856
There'll never be a
requirement for Renee

531
00:27:55.956 --> 00:27:58.936
to be a catwalk thin model.

532
00:27:59.036 --> 00:28:03.056
As long as Renee can be a girl
that weighs circa, sixty kilos.

533
00:28:03.156 --> 00:28:05.896
[whispering]
She's actually sixty-five.

534
00:28:05.996 --> 00:28:08.775
But I'm not going to say that.
[men laughing]

535
00:28:08.875 --> 00:28:10.175
'Circa' has a bandwidth.

536
00:28:10.275 --> 00:28:11.535
[man] That's right, yeah,

537
00:28:11.635 --> 00:28:13.915
you've got a bit of room
to play with there.

538
00:28:16.195 --> 00:28:20.355
[tense music]

539
00:28:32.394 --> 00:28:34.654
[Ray] You could just
see the stress,

540
00:28:34.754 --> 00:28:39.333
the pressure in her,
it was just enormous.

541
00:28:39.433 --> 00:28:41.293
In the meantime, we're trying
to go to the hospital

542
00:28:41.393 --> 00:28:43.953
every opportunity to
see what's happening.

543
00:28:45.313 --> 00:28:47.253
[machine beeping]

544
00:28:47.353 --> 00:28:51.572
[Ray] Sue was in hospital
for six months.

545
00:28:51.672 --> 00:28:54.172
[Renee] They basically said
the chances of her, um,

546
00:28:54.272 --> 00:28:56.992
waking up off life support
are slim to zero.

547
00:28:59.352 --> 00:29:00.652
[beeping]

548
00:29:00.752 --> 00:29:04.212
[Ray] There was a slight
flicker on their scanning.

549
00:29:04.312 --> 00:29:06.531
[Renee] Slowly over another
couple of weeks she,

550
00:29:06.631 --> 00:29:08.631
she finally woke up.

551
00:29:12.711 --> 00:29:14.531
[Ray] She lost all
cognitive ability.

552
00:29:14.631 --> 00:29:17.811
She's got no
short-term memory.

553
00:29:17.911 --> 00:29:20.230
Got no balance.

554
00:29:21.590 --> 00:29:23.370
[Renee] She's in an
aged care home

555
00:29:23.470 --> 00:29:25.970
for people who
have brain injuries.

556
00:29:26.070 --> 00:29:28.170
She barely recognises us
when we come in.

557
00:29:28.270 --> 00:29:29.530
We sort of have to
jig her memory

558
00:29:29.630 --> 00:29:31.370
on who we are and
why we're visiting her

559
00:29:31.470 --> 00:29:33.549
and it's just, yeah,
it's really hard.

560
00:29:36.869 --> 00:29:38.609
[Renee]
Mum before the accident -

561
00:29:38.709 --> 00:29:41.709
stubborn, loud...

562
00:29:47.588 --> 00:29:49.768
A strong, independent...

563
00:29:49.868 --> 00:29:52.368
Not afraid, not scared...

564
00:29:52.468 --> 00:29:54.748
Kind of like me, I guess.

565
00:29:57.748 --> 00:30:00.808
[Renee] I just grew this like
thick skin to cope and,

566
00:30:00.908 --> 00:30:02.907
and move on.

567
00:30:04.067 --> 00:30:06.207
[Jewell] It must have
played on her mind and,

568
00:30:06.307 --> 00:30:08.047
and troubled her more
than she actually,

569
00:30:08.147 --> 00:30:09.807
gave me that impression.

570
00:30:09.907 --> 00:30:12.647
Renee deals with a lot
of things very privately.

571
00:30:12.747 --> 00:30:14.687
It's sometimes very
hard to get, you know,

572
00:30:14.787 --> 00:30:18.526
what's in Renee's head out
of what's in Renee's head.

573
00:30:18.626 --> 00:30:22.166
[Ray] I think, personally,
that it's really a side effect

574
00:30:22.266 --> 00:30:26.826
of the pressures that she was
under growing up, in cars.

575
00:30:28.946 --> 00:30:31.405
She's mentally tough.

576
00:30:31.505 --> 00:30:33.645
You just could not have
done any of this

577
00:30:33.745 --> 00:30:35.745
if you hadn't been tough.

578
00:30:37.945 --> 00:30:38.785
[reporter] How do you feel about

579
00:30:38.785 --> 00:30:40.805
being one of the only
female competitors?

580
00:30:40.905 --> 00:30:43.324
Yes, there are lots of guys
around and, you know,

581
00:30:43.424 --> 00:30:44.604
you do get a bit
lonely sometimes.

582
00:30:44.704 --> 00:30:46.124
But, um, yeah,
that's just part of the job

583
00:30:46.224 --> 00:30:48.584
and I love what I do
and I put up with it.

584
00:30:49.504 --> 00:30:52.424
[tense music]

585
00:30:53.184 --> 00:30:55.124
[birds calling]

586
00:30:55.224 --> 00:30:58.243
[Jewell] Renee's first year,
I devised an opportunity

587
00:30:58.343 --> 00:31:04.243
to create an all-female wildcard
entry at the Bathurst 1000.

588
00:31:04.343 --> 00:31:07.363
[Renee] I had such a
bad year with no results.

589
00:31:07.463 --> 00:31:09.843
The Bathurst 1000 was
going to be my opportunity

590
00:31:09.943 --> 00:31:12.162
to show people what
I could do in the car.

591
00:31:12.262 --> 00:31:14.202
[reporter] Brisbane V8 driver,
Renee Gracie,

592
00:31:14.302 --> 00:31:16.762
will create history at the
Bathurst 1000 this year,

593
00:31:16.862 --> 00:31:19.502
when she tackles
The Mountain.

594
00:31:21.902 --> 00:31:23.842
[commentator] And welcome
to Mount Panorama,

595
00:31:23.942 --> 00:31:26.561
exclusive coverage
of The Great Race.

596
00:31:26.661 --> 00:31:30.361
[reporter] Arguably Australia's
toughest racetrack.

597
00:31:30.461 --> 00:31:34.701
[reporter] 161 laps,
seven hours of racing.

598
00:31:37.021 --> 00:31:40.640
[reporter] 200,000 people
are expected to cheer on

599
00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:42.360
their heroes this weekend.

600
00:31:42.460 --> 00:31:45.440
[reporter] Bathurst is the
holy grail of motor racing.

601
00:31:45.540 --> 00:31:46.760
It's the race of all races, mate.

602
00:31:46.860 --> 00:31:48.240
Come on, Bathurst!

603
00:31:48.340 --> 00:31:49.080
Fuck you!

604
00:31:49.180 --> 00:31:50.600
[man] The race is an excuse

605
00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:54.759
to get away from
your wife and family.

606
00:31:54.859 --> 00:31:56.879
[reporter] Receiving almost
as much attention,

607
00:31:56.979 --> 00:31:59.959
the scantily clad
promotional girls.

608
00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:01.799
Oh, if we stop getting
grabbed on the backside.

609
00:32:01.899 --> 00:32:03.439
I know.

610
00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:05.199
[Renee] Chris was telling me
we've got an opportunity

611
00:32:05.299 --> 00:32:08.358
to do the Bathurst wildcard,
we need to find a driver,

612
00:32:08.458 --> 00:32:11.038
we're going to do a female
driver and a female team.

613
00:32:11.138 --> 00:32:13.598
[Smy] A wildcard entry,
it's like a bonus entry

614
00:32:13.698 --> 00:32:15.998
or a one-off entry.

615
00:32:16.098 --> 00:32:17.478
And the opportunity
with wildcards

616
00:32:17.578 --> 00:32:19.438
is that it gets more
eyeballs on Supercars

617
00:32:19.538 --> 00:32:22.337
and it gets more people in the
gate watching motorsport.

618
00:32:24.497 --> 00:32:25.597
It's extremely exciting, um...

619
00:32:25.697 --> 00:32:29.117
[Ray] Renee was the only
potential V8 female driver.

620
00:32:29.217 --> 00:32:32.637
So Chris started searching
the world for a female driver

621
00:32:32.737 --> 00:32:35.357
that wanted to
come and race.

622
00:32:35.457 --> 00:32:38.156
[commentator] ...de Silvestro
for the first time

623
00:32:38.256 --> 00:32:39.156
on the podium.

624
00:32:39.256 --> 00:32:42.596
[Smy] Simona de Silvestro
is a Swiss racing driver,

625
00:32:42.696 --> 00:32:44.836
highly credentialed in terms
of IndyCar in particular.

626
00:32:44.936 --> 00:32:48.076
[reporter] Taking a break last
year to test Formula One.

627
00:32:48.176 --> 00:32:51.835
[Renee] Simona was very keen
to come over and do it.

628
00:32:51.935 --> 00:32:54.435
Always kind of
seen that racetrack

629
00:32:54.535 --> 00:32:57.715
and seen that race and
always wanted to be part of it.

630
00:32:57.815 --> 00:32:58.915
[man] This way ladies.

631
00:32:59.015 --> 00:33:02.655
[Renee] It became Simona and I,
the 'Harvey Norman Supergirls'.

632
00:33:08.614 --> 00:33:12.234
[reporter] Gracie and her Swiss
teammate, Simona de Silvestro,

633
00:33:12.334 --> 00:33:13.874
dubbed the 'Supergirls'.

634
00:33:13.974 --> 00:33:18.473
[reporter] The first all-female
entry in seventeen years.

635
00:33:18.573 --> 00:33:20.433
[Renee] It was great
to finally have a

636
00:33:20.533 --> 00:33:23.313
comparable female
figure in your life.

637
00:33:23.413 --> 00:33:24.793
My whole life I'd never
really spoken to

638
00:33:24.893 --> 00:33:26.433
a female racing car
driver before.

639
00:33:26.533 --> 00:33:29.753
[reporter] There's only ever
been one other all-female team

640
00:33:29.853 --> 00:33:32.712
to race Bathurst,
back in 1998.

641
00:33:32.812 --> 00:33:34.632
Melinda Price
and Kerryn Brewer,

642
00:33:34.732 --> 00:33:36.872
the first Castrol Cougars
who took on the boys

643
00:33:36.972 --> 00:33:38.592
in endurance racing.

644
00:33:38.692 --> 00:33:41.752
[Smy] I think if you just group
two female drivers together

645
00:33:41.852 --> 00:33:45.552
because they're female,
that doesn't make any sense.

646
00:33:45.652 --> 00:33:47.191
Some fans might
have seen it as

647
00:33:47.291 --> 00:33:51.911
you put two females in
the car because, that's,

648
00:33:52.011 --> 00:33:54.311
you know,
minimises the risk.

649
00:33:54.411 --> 00:33:57.511
Because to be frank we wouldn't
put Simona in with a guy

650
00:33:57.611 --> 00:34:00.910
or Renee in with a guy because
that's a waste of an entry.

651
00:34:01.010 --> 00:34:03.910
The Castrol Cougars
thing as well.

652
00:34:04.010 --> 00:34:04.910
I went to Bathurst '98,

653
00:34:05.010 --> 00:34:07.870
It's just -
yeah, there's the girl's car.

654
00:34:07.970 --> 00:34:08.830
Like, are they any good?

655
00:34:08.930 --> 00:34:10.930
I don't know,
never heard of them.

656
00:34:13.010 --> 00:34:14.469
So you go,
where have they come from?

657
00:34:14.569 --> 00:34:15.829
Oh, they're in it just because
they're women,

658
00:34:15.929 --> 00:34:19.129
to be frank, so...

659
00:34:22.409 --> 00:34:24.229
[reporter]
Thousands of race fans

660
00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:27.589
have already started setting up
camp at Mount Panorama,

661
00:34:27.689 --> 00:34:30.728
more than a week out
from the Bathurst 1000.

662
00:34:31.408 --> 00:34:33.408
[man] Yeah!

663
00:34:35.048 --> 00:34:36.868
[man whistling]

664
00:34:36.968 --> 00:34:38.948
[man] Hey Gracie...

665
00:34:39.048 --> 00:34:42.028
[Renee] The media was
just out of control.

666
00:34:42.128 --> 00:34:43.907
Probably been thrown in
the deep end a little bit.

667
00:34:44.007 --> 00:34:45.507
- Brand new world for me.
- A bit of pressure.

668
00:34:45.607 --> 00:34:47.267
- Difficult to drive.
- A lot to take in.

669
00:34:47.367 --> 00:34:48.947
I'm kind of the lead driver

670
00:34:49.047 --> 00:34:51.987
with the no experience
in a V8 Supercar.

671
00:34:52.087 --> 00:34:54.347
[Renee] We both didn't
have much experience.

672
00:34:54.447 --> 00:34:57.346
[reporter] Racing legend Dick
Johnson expressing doubts

673
00:34:57.446 --> 00:34:58.866
the first female Bathurst team

674
00:34:58.966 --> 00:35:02.566
will be able to finish
the 161 lap race.

675
00:35:05.366 --> 00:35:06.746
[reporter] Some have criticised

676
00:35:06.846 --> 00:35:08.706
the inclusion of the
all-female team,

677
00:35:08.806 --> 00:35:13.065
suggesting it's a gimmick to
generate more media attention.

678
00:35:13.165 --> 00:35:14.985
I don't agree with
how V8 Supercars

679
00:35:15.085 --> 00:35:18.845
are throwing the money,
you know, supporting her.

680
00:35:22.605 --> 00:35:25.664
[Renee] Groups of men would
scream things and shout things.

681
00:35:25.764 --> 00:35:26.904
"You're fucking useless!"

682
00:35:27.004 --> 00:35:28.104
"You should be in the kitchen."

683
00:35:28.204 --> 00:35:30.344
"You should be making
sandwiches, not on a racetrack."

684
00:35:30.444 --> 00:35:32.504
"Get your tits out
and go be a grid girl."

685
00:35:32.604 --> 00:35:33.664
"You don't deserve to race."

686
00:35:33.764 --> 00:35:35.224
All of those sorts
of things were,

687
00:35:35.324 --> 00:35:39.343
were very common,
all the time, all the time.

688
00:35:39.443 --> 00:35:42.963
[birds calling]
[distant chattering]

689
00:35:46.963 --> 00:35:49.783
Danika joins us now with some
breaking news from Bathurst.

690
00:35:49.883 --> 00:35:50.423
Danika.

691
00:35:50.523 --> 00:35:52.902
Dave Reynolds is in
some trouble tonight

692
00:35:53.002 --> 00:35:56.862
after making a sexist remark
about the all-female team.

693
00:35:56.962 --> 00:35:58.062
[reporter]
These are the comments

694
00:35:58.162 --> 00:36:00.342
that David Reynolds
is under fire for.

695
00:36:00.442 --> 00:36:04.462
[interviewer] David, uh, were
you wary of the female team?

696
00:36:04.562 --> 00:36:07.541
[Reynolds] Sorry, was I
aware of the pussywagon?

697
00:36:07.641 --> 00:36:10.181
[men laughing]

698
00:36:10.281 --> 00:36:14.181
There was a comment made
calling us the 'pussywagon'

699
00:36:14.281 --> 00:36:16.261
and it was made by
David Reynolds.

700
00:36:16.361 --> 00:36:19.401
[man] David, interview one,
take three.

701
00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:25.660
My name is David Reynolds
and I'm a V8 Supercar driver.

702
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:26.900
David Reynolds has won

703
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.980
his second career
V8 Supercars race in Darwin

704
00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:34.640
and was quizzed about his
subdued celebration post-race.

705
00:36:38.479 --> 00:36:40.659
I'm known as the
class clown in my sport.

706
00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:42.379
[reporter] Well he more than
made up for it on the podium,

707
00:36:42.479 --> 00:36:45.179
drinking out of his boot,
which may explain

708
00:36:45.279 --> 00:36:47.979
how he got the stomach pains
in the first place.

709
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:53.018
Yeah, Dave, um, is a
unique talent, you could say,

710
00:36:53.118 --> 00:36:54.858
and gets himself
into some trouble.

711
00:36:54.958 --> 00:36:56.818
Yeah, I always seem
to put my foot in it.

712
00:36:56.918 --> 00:37:01.498
- Honk if you're horny.
- Honk, honk.

713
00:37:01.598 --> 00:37:04.657
[Reynolds] Bathurst Thursday
is just a normal practice day

714
00:37:04.757 --> 00:37:06.857
and I ended up third
fastest car for the day.

715
00:37:06.957 --> 00:37:10.157
So the top three drivers
go to a press conference.

716
00:37:11.517 --> 00:37:12.577
And then someone asked,

717
00:37:12.677 --> 00:37:15.137
"Did you see the all-women
car out there?"

718
00:37:15.237 --> 00:37:18.936
And then I sort of said, "What
do you mean, the pussywagon?"

719
00:37:19.036 --> 00:37:20.256
That was it.

720
00:37:20.356 --> 00:37:22.336
I loved it, I wanted to run,
like, merchandise

721
00:37:22.436 --> 00:37:24.176
and I wanted it to be,
like, my new nickname.

722
00:37:24.276 --> 00:37:27.096
I could see it as being, like,
it's something that's really -

723
00:37:27.196 --> 00:37:30.016
could've taken off and
could've been really quite cool.

724
00:37:30.116 --> 00:37:31.735
We were with Ford
Performance Racing

725
00:37:31.835 --> 00:37:33.215
and Dave was in the team,

726
00:37:33.315 --> 00:37:35.655
so we used to say all
sorts of stuff like that.

727
00:37:35.755 --> 00:37:39.455
Yeah, we used to take the piss
out of each other all the time.

728
00:37:39.555 --> 00:37:41.175
[Reynolds] Maybe
about an hour later

729
00:37:41.275 --> 00:37:43.575
one of the engineers from
the other side of the room

730
00:37:43.675 --> 00:37:44.295
looks up and goes,

731
00:37:44.395 --> 00:37:46.934
"Hey Reynolds, are you
getting a $25,000 fine?"

732
00:37:47.034 --> 00:37:50.694
And I just went, hmm,
not that I know of.

733
00:37:50.794 --> 00:37:53.254
[Reynolds] A few minutes later
there was a knock at the door

734
00:37:53.354 --> 00:37:55.614
and there was a
Supercar representative

735
00:37:55.714 --> 00:37:57.894
with a piece of paper in his
hand and he handed it to me.

736
00:37:57.994 --> 00:38:01.333
He said, "Don't contest it or
they're going to double it...

737
00:38:01.433 --> 00:38:03.173
"..to $50,000."

738
00:38:03.273 --> 00:38:06.333
So that sort of scared me
into signing the deal.

739
00:38:06.433 --> 00:38:09.573
[Reynolds] And so I was
basically forced into

740
00:38:09.673 --> 00:38:12.533
taking the largest fine
ever given to a driver.

741
00:38:12.633 --> 00:38:15.692
[Ruggiero] The fine that he got
was the biggest fine in,

742
00:38:15.792 --> 00:38:18.132
as far as I'm aware,
the history of Australian sport.

743
00:38:18.232 --> 00:38:19.812
[reporter]
David Reynolds' comments

744
00:38:19.912 --> 00:38:21.852
have been slammed
as disgraceful.

745
00:38:21.952 --> 00:38:23.572
- A sexist comment.
- A sexist remark.

746
00:38:23.672 --> 00:38:26.452
- For an offensive comment.
- [reporter] A sexist slur.

747
00:38:26.552 --> 00:38:28.091
I thought, like,
am I going insane?

748
00:38:28.191 --> 00:38:29.331
Am I really a sexist?

749
00:38:29.431 --> 00:38:30.971
For a moment
I would have said

750
00:38:31.071 --> 00:38:33.171
that Dave's career was finished.

751
00:38:33.271 --> 00:38:35.411
[Renee] Supercars had
already told Chris

752
00:38:35.511 --> 00:38:38.291
that I had to then make
a public statement,

753
00:38:38.391 --> 00:38:40.171
and I remember
saying to Chris,

754
00:38:40.271 --> 00:38:41.410
"I'm not making a statement.

755
00:38:41.510 --> 00:38:44.130
"I've got no problem
with it whatsoever."

756
00:38:44.230 --> 00:38:45.730
And Chris turned
around and he said,

757
00:38:45.830 --> 00:38:49.770
"No, like, you have to
make a statement or

758
00:38:49.870 --> 00:38:53.330
"Supercars will pretty much
make one on your behalf."

759
00:38:53.430 --> 00:38:55.010
They released an apology

760
00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:57.389
with my name attached to it
saying it was from me.

761
00:38:58.589 --> 00:39:01.389
[tense music]

762
00:39:04.669 --> 00:39:06.289
[Reynolds] I can't even
remember what it said

763
00:39:06.389 --> 00:39:08.129
because I wasn't
part of it at all.

764
00:39:08.229 --> 00:39:10.888
Very, very strange they can
do something like that.

765
00:39:10.988 --> 00:39:13.648
[Renee] I let them know that
I didn't have a problem with it

766
00:39:13.748 --> 00:39:15.048
and they basically said,

767
00:39:15.148 --> 00:39:17.248
"You've got to portray
our thoughts,

768
00:39:17.348 --> 00:39:19.648
"not what you think
and how you feel."

769
00:39:19.748 --> 00:39:21.968
Slightly inappropriate
and, uh, yeah,

770
00:39:22.068 --> 00:39:24.047
it's one of those things, V8
Supercars have handled it,

771
00:39:24.147 --> 00:39:27.087
and uh, Simona and I will
get on with our job today,

772
00:39:27.187 --> 00:39:29.607
which is driving a race car.

773
00:39:29.707 --> 00:39:31.927
[Reynolds] I knew that
she was a puppet.

774
00:39:32.027 --> 00:39:33.767
When she was on camera,
she wasn't...

775
00:39:33.867 --> 00:39:36.127
That was not her true self.

776
00:39:36.227 --> 00:39:42.006
And I get it, I understand it,
I know. I'm in the same sport.

777
00:39:42.106 --> 00:39:43.206
[Renee] Basically how I sort of

778
00:39:43.306 --> 00:39:45.006
got fed information
from Supercars,

779
00:39:45.106 --> 00:39:47.366
there was a big thing
in the media

780
00:39:47.466 --> 00:39:51.725
about how male sportsmen
were treating women.

781
00:39:51.825 --> 00:39:54.645
Rugby league is maligned,
usually fairly,

782
00:39:54.745 --> 00:39:57.405
as the worst behaved
sporting code.

783
00:39:57.505 --> 00:39:59.565
The NRL has come
under blistering attack.

784
00:39:59.665 --> 00:40:00.805
[reporter] One of their
favourite sons...

785
00:40:00.905 --> 00:40:03.245
[Peter Overton] Was today
convicted of sexual assault.

786
00:40:03.345 --> 00:40:04.405
[reporter] Stalking two women.

787
00:40:04.505 --> 00:40:06.124
[reporter] Reaching up
a woman's skirt.

788
00:40:06.224 --> 00:40:08.084
[reporter] Repeatedly
assaulting ex-girlfriend

789
00:40:08.184 --> 00:40:10.684
over an eight-month period.

790
00:40:10.784 --> 00:40:14.324
Supercars were very concerned
not to get dragged into

791
00:40:14.424 --> 00:40:15.404
the football players
are treating

792
00:40:15.504 --> 00:40:17.404
their wives and girlfriends
and girls like this

793
00:40:17.504 --> 00:40:19.963
and now Supercar drivers
are treating girls like this.

794
00:40:20.063 --> 00:40:23.163
[reporter] V8 Supercars says
the comment was disgraceful

795
00:40:23.263 --> 00:40:26.203
and completely
unacceptable in the sport.

796
00:40:26.303 --> 00:40:27.563
[commentator] Oh!

797
00:40:27.663 --> 00:40:29.123
[commentator]
Real aggressive driving.

798
00:40:29.223 --> 00:40:31.003
[Reynolds] They've had
other drivers crash cars,

799
00:40:31.103 --> 00:40:32.643
trying to run other drivers
over on the track,

800
00:40:32.743 --> 00:40:34.322
effectively using them
as a weapon.

801
00:40:34.422 --> 00:40:36.722
[commentator] Get out of
the way, get out of the way.

802
00:40:36.822 --> 00:40:39.422
[Reynolds] They've had
fights in pit lane, punch ups.

803
00:40:43.142 --> 00:40:45.002
I find that funny,

804
00:40:45.102 --> 00:40:47.322
that I could go and
physically hurt someone

805
00:40:47.422 --> 00:40:51.961
and couldn't get
that sort of size fine.

806
00:40:52.061 --> 00:40:53.321
Bloody strange isn't it?

807
00:40:53.421 --> 00:40:54.801
But I paid on my
credit card,

808
00:40:54.901 --> 00:40:57.041
I like to tell people, and
I got Qantas points for it,

809
00:40:57.141 --> 00:41:00.121
and ended up buying
like a nice toaster so...

810
00:41:00.221 --> 00:41:02.820
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Beautiful toaster.

811
00:41:05.740 --> 00:41:07.960
[Renee] At the Bathurst 1000
I had people abuse me,

812
00:41:08.060 --> 00:41:10.360
and I was spat at,
I had death threats

813
00:41:10.460 --> 00:41:13.600
and nothing was ever
done to protect me.

814
00:41:13.700 --> 00:41:15.520
Yet a driver,
who was a friend

815
00:41:15.620 --> 00:41:17.079
and I thought was trying
to be quite funny,

816
00:41:17.179 --> 00:41:18.399
makes a comment
that they didn't approve

817
00:41:18.499 --> 00:41:21.559
and Supercars
blow it out of proportion.

818
00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:23.159
It made no sense
to any of us

819
00:41:23.259 --> 00:41:24.519
because there were
so many other things

820
00:41:24.619 --> 00:41:26.559
that they could have been
focusing their time on.

821
00:41:26.659 --> 00:41:28.199
It was clearly just
all for image

822
00:41:28.299 --> 00:41:29.639
and they just
didn't want to be

823
00:41:29.739 --> 00:41:30.798
dragged into
all the other drama

824
00:41:30.898 --> 00:41:33.978
that was happening in sports
in Australia at that time.

825
00:41:35.098 --> 00:41:37.258
[man] Come my way sweetheart.

826
00:41:47.817 --> 00:41:52.297
[operatic fanfare]

827
00:41:54.857 --> 00:41:56.997
[commentator] It's your
ticket to the history books.

828
00:41:57.097 --> 00:41:59.356
No one will ever forget you.

829
00:41:59.456 --> 00:42:01.876
This is the race that
means the most.

830
00:42:01.976 --> 00:42:04.196
To lose this race,
to mess this up,

831
00:42:04.296 --> 00:42:06.476
well that's a pain
that will stay with you

832
00:42:06.576 --> 00:42:09.396
for the rest of your
days on this earth.

833
00:42:09.496 --> 00:42:14.775
Get ready for the Bathurst 1000,
2015.

834
00:42:18.215 --> 00:42:20.035
[Renee] It was just
non-stop media,

835
00:42:20.135 --> 00:42:22.315
non-stop attention
from all angles.

836
00:42:22.415 --> 00:42:25.335
All of a sudden, you go out
and you race.

837
00:42:26.894 --> 00:42:28.194
[commentator]
The crowd is ready,

838
00:42:28.294 --> 00:42:30.034
the drivers are set.

839
00:42:30.134 --> 00:42:32.554
[Renee] For me it was
my time to prove

840
00:42:32.654 --> 00:42:34.674
that I deserve
to be there.

841
00:42:34.774 --> 00:42:37.474
[commentator] We are
moments away from a start.

842
00:42:37.574 --> 00:42:41.153
[Ray] There was nervousness
of don't crash,

843
00:42:41.253 --> 00:42:43.873
don't make a fool of yourself.

844
00:42:43.973 --> 00:42:45.593
[commentator]
The drivers unleash.

845
00:42:45.693 --> 00:42:49.073
It's chaos as everyone tries
to break free from the pack.

846
00:42:49.173 --> 00:42:51.113
Over the Top of the Mountain,

847
00:42:51.213 --> 00:42:53.633
to the cheering of the fans
who await their arrival.

848
00:42:53.733 --> 00:42:56.992
It was going okay
until lap sixteen.

849
00:42:57.092 --> 00:42:59.912
[car accelerating]

850
00:43:00.012 --> 00:43:03.592
[car skidding]
[car crashing]

851
00:43:03.692 --> 00:43:05.472
[commentator] Oh no,
we've got a crash

852
00:43:05.572 --> 00:43:07.352
and it's the Supergirls entry,

853
00:43:07.452 --> 00:43:11.391
Renee Gracie in the wall
at Forrest Elbow.

854
00:43:11.491 --> 00:43:15.231
[Smy] For sceptics, lasting
sixteen laps into Bathurst

855
00:43:15.331 --> 00:43:17.391
might have been vindication,

856
00:43:17.491 --> 00:43:19.771
oh that wasn't
a good decision.

857
00:43:21.091 --> 00:43:22.511
[Renee] Why the hell
did that happen?

858
00:43:22.611 --> 00:43:25.630
Why didn't I slow down? 'Cause
I was on the brakes like hard.

859
00:43:25.730 --> 00:43:27.670
[commentator] This is the end
of the Supergirl's race.

860
00:43:27.770 --> 00:43:30.230
Huge damage.
This will require a safety car.

861
00:43:30.330 --> 00:43:32.310
[Renee] If you have to be
picked up by a tow truck

862
00:43:32.410 --> 00:43:34.350
and be towed back
you don't finish

863
00:43:34.450 --> 00:43:35.710
and I was just like adamant.

864
00:43:35.810 --> 00:43:39.109
I was just like there is no way
I'm going back on a tow truck.

865
00:43:39.209 --> 00:43:41.349
[car starting and accelerating]

866
00:43:41.449 --> 00:43:42.329
[commentator] Wow,
Gracie's managed

867
00:43:42.329 --> 00:43:44.469
to get it out of the wall.
That's incredible.

868
00:43:44.569 --> 00:43:46.269
[Renee] My bonnet was
bent so far up

869
00:43:46.369 --> 00:43:47.869
from when I had hit
the concrete wall

870
00:43:47.969 --> 00:43:50.089
that I could not
see in front of me.

871
00:43:52.568 --> 00:43:54.108
I could see in my
rear vision mirror

872
00:43:54.208 --> 00:43:56.228
if I centre in the
middle of the road

873
00:43:56.328 --> 00:43:59.308
and just based off my
memory of the track,

874
00:43:59.408 --> 00:44:01.928
drove home
into the pits, blind.

875
00:44:09.007 --> 00:44:11.147
[man] Won't turn? Steering
column must be pretty mangled

876
00:44:11.247 --> 00:44:13.247
after that crash.

877
00:44:17.007 --> 00:44:22.646
I remember feeling stressed, disappointed.

878
00:44:24.206 --> 00:44:26.386
I remember everyone
who was sitting in the pits

879
00:44:26.486 --> 00:44:29.266
looking at me like
disappointed that I crashed.

880
00:44:29.366 --> 00:44:31.786
[commentator]
Simona de Silvestro not happy.

881
00:44:31.886 --> 00:44:33.885
There's no hiding that.

882
00:44:35.245 --> 00:44:38.345
[Renee] It turns out that there
was oil at Forrest Elbow

883
00:44:38.445 --> 00:44:41.505
and it was the car in front
of me that dropped it.

884
00:44:41.605 --> 00:44:43.265
People started to come back
and reassure me

885
00:44:43.365 --> 00:44:45.065
that it wasn't something that
I did on my own fault -

886
00:44:45.165 --> 00:44:47.964
to make me feel a little bit
better, not that it did.

887
00:44:49.644 --> 00:44:51.264
[commentator] They've
been able to fix the car

888
00:44:51.364 --> 00:44:54.084
and the Supergirl's
race is back on.

889
00:44:56.284 --> 00:44:59.184
[Smy] They took them to lap
53 to get the car back out.

890
00:44:59.284 --> 00:45:03.943
They just made it for the window
to be qualified as finishers.

891
00:45:04.043 --> 00:45:06.623
[commentator] Craig Lowndes
takes his sixth triumph

892
00:45:06.723 --> 00:45:08.843
in The Great Race.

893
00:45:10.003 --> 00:45:12.943
[Renee] We finished
twenty-first.

894
00:45:13.043 --> 00:45:14.463
We were able to recover

895
00:45:14.563 --> 00:45:17.642
and I think that made it
an achievement in itself.

896
00:45:20.802 --> 00:45:23.922
[Renee] After we finished and I
went to go to the bathroom,

897
00:45:25.282 --> 00:45:27.622
I saw groups of men.

898
00:45:27.722 --> 00:45:29.901
They were up in like
the corporate boxes,

899
00:45:30.001 --> 00:45:31.221
talking and pointing.

900
00:45:31.321 --> 00:45:33.141
Don't you know how to brake?
Don't you know how to steer?

901
00:45:33.241 --> 00:45:34.301
Don't you know
where the corner is?

902
00:45:34.401 --> 00:45:37.181
And yeah, threw a beer can,
a full VB beer can

903
00:45:37.281 --> 00:45:39.281
straight at my head.

904
00:45:42.601 --> 00:45:45.180
[Renee] Sort of like hit like
my shoulder, neck, head,

905
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.620
like bounced off me.

906
00:45:47.720 --> 00:45:50.540
I remember just pretending
not to look embarrassed

907
00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:52.420
and almost looking like
it didn't hit me

908
00:45:52.520 --> 00:45:54.760
and it didn't touch me
and just like playing it cool.

909
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.099
Security knew about it,
everyone knew about it.

910
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.819
They deemed him
as 'not drunk'.

911
00:46:02.919 --> 00:46:05.659
He was still in the corporate
boxes above our garage.

912
00:46:05.759 --> 00:46:08.279
He didn't get kicked out.

913
00:46:11.079 --> 00:46:12.698
[reporter] Just sixteen laps in,

914
00:46:12.798 --> 00:46:14.818
heartbreak for the
all-female team.

915
00:46:14.918 --> 00:46:17.498
[reporter] Renee Gracie
hit a wall at Forrest Elbow.

916
00:46:17.598 --> 00:46:19.378
[reporter] The car was
eventually repaired

917
00:46:19.478 --> 00:46:22.158
but the Bathurst dream
had been ruined.

918
00:46:23.238 --> 00:46:24.418
[Renee] The whole weekend,

919
00:46:24.518 --> 00:46:26.657
I think it really did
some damage to like

920
00:46:26.757 --> 00:46:29.497
my confidence and definitely
shifted and changed

921
00:46:29.597 --> 00:46:33.717
the way I think and felt about
motorsport in general.

922
00:46:39.157 --> 00:46:40.456
[Renee] Even with the accident

923
00:46:40.556 --> 00:46:44.476
Supercars were still happy
with the overall program.

924
00:46:47.796 --> 00:46:50.656
The value of the whole
Bathurst event

925
00:46:50.756 --> 00:46:53.016
was 62 million dollars

926
00:46:53.116 --> 00:46:56.775
and the value of Renee
and Simona's media

927
00:46:56.875 --> 00:47:00.775
was 22 million dollars.

928
00:47:00.875 --> 00:47:02.855
Through my whole career
in motorsport

929
00:47:02.955 --> 00:47:05.815
I got zero dollars
and zero cents.

930
00:47:05.915 --> 00:47:07.535
I was fully sponsored

931
00:47:07.635 --> 00:47:10.854
but every cent of it would go
back into the racing program.

932
00:47:10.954 --> 00:47:13.134
I didn't get paid to race.

933
00:47:13.234 --> 00:47:15.754
I was broke-broke.

934
00:47:20.834 --> 00:47:23.173
After Bathurst I wanted
to be closer to Chris,

935
00:47:23.273 --> 00:47:25.373
closer to the team
that I was with

936
00:47:25.473 --> 00:47:29.213
and reset everything with a
new team and a new car.

937
00:47:29.313 --> 00:47:34.573
My dad was very against me
going down to live with Chris.

938
00:47:34.673 --> 00:47:36.572
[Ray] He was saying to Renee,

939
00:47:36.672 --> 00:47:39.132
your father's not interested
in you, your father doesn't,

940
00:47:39.232 --> 00:47:41.432
not interested
in your career.

941
00:47:43.152 --> 00:47:44.092
I didn't tell him.

942
00:47:44.192 --> 00:47:44.972
- Oh, didn't ya?
- Nah.

943
00:47:45.072 --> 00:47:46.332
So he didn't see you
leave with it all?

944
00:47:46.432 --> 00:47:47.252
Nah.

945
00:47:47.352 --> 00:47:49.012
How did you sneak
it out? Was he out?

946
00:47:49.112 --> 00:47:50.651
- Put it all in my bag.
- Dining out?

947
00:47:50.751 --> 00:47:52.751
No, I just put it
all in my bag.

948
00:47:57.511 --> 00:47:59.371
[Renee] I would have done
anything to, you know,

949
00:47:59.471 --> 00:48:00.411
be a paid driver.

950
00:48:00.511 --> 00:48:02.571
So if someone was sort of like
getting in the way of that

951
00:48:02.671 --> 00:48:05.330
it was just like, okay, I'm not
listening to you anymore, next!

952
00:48:05.430 --> 00:48:07.430
And that was Dad, unfortunately.

953
00:48:10.550 --> 00:48:14.890
[Ray] I spent the last six years
going Karting,

954
00:48:14.990 --> 00:48:17.250
spending bloody money.

955
00:48:17.350 --> 00:48:20.849
If that's the case - fuck off!

956
00:48:20.949 --> 00:48:23.029
Pretty much how the
conversation went.

957
00:48:24.229 --> 00:48:25.209
We've been bloody,

958
00:48:25.309 --> 00:48:29.009
like in each other's pocket
for six years almost.

959
00:48:29.109 --> 00:48:33.708
So, yeah, it was, um,
it was difficult.

960
00:48:35.468 --> 00:48:39.648
[Renee] I think deep down the
passion was really burnt out.

961
00:48:39.748 --> 00:48:40.808
[commentator]
And Renee Gracie

962
00:48:40.908 --> 00:48:43.448
loses control of the
back end of the car.

963
00:48:43.548 --> 00:48:46.447
She's out of business.

964
00:48:46.547 --> 00:48:47.887
Like, I fucking hate this.

965
00:48:47.987 --> 00:48:49.987
I don't want to be
here anymore.

966
00:48:51.907 --> 00:48:53.367
The very last race that I did

967
00:48:53.467 --> 00:48:56.447
it was about halfway
through a season.

968
00:48:56.547 --> 00:48:59.607
I think we had about three
more races to go.

969
00:48:59.707 --> 00:49:03.246
I got told we've got no money
to go to the next round

970
00:49:03.346 --> 00:49:06.086
and then I remember thinking,
hmm, that's weird.

971
00:49:06.186 --> 00:49:07.486
We should have
X amount of dollars left

972
00:49:07.586 --> 00:49:09.486
based off the sponsorship,
you know,

973
00:49:09.586 --> 00:49:11.406
that I thought we were getting.

974
00:49:11.506 --> 00:49:13.246
Dad obviously wasn't
in the picture

975
00:49:13.346 --> 00:49:14.365
because I wasn't
talking to him.

976
00:49:14.465 --> 00:49:17.185
I had no one to know
what to ask.

977
00:49:18.785 --> 00:49:21.425
I think it was just like
the nail in the coffin.

978
00:49:22.625 --> 00:49:24.625
The last kick in the guts.

979
00:49:26.025 --> 00:49:27.445
It was my time to

980
00:49:27.545 --> 00:49:30.864
just get the hell out of just
motorsport in general.

981
00:49:32.104 --> 00:49:34.124
[Smy] She's replaced
by Jordan Boys

982
00:49:34.224 --> 00:49:35.644
with a couple of rounds to go

983
00:49:35.744 --> 00:49:39.884
and in five races,
Jordan manages to accrue

984
00:49:39.984 --> 00:49:44.083
more than half the points
that Renee did in seventeen.

985
00:49:44.183 --> 00:49:44.983
[announcer]
<i>Ladies and gentlemen</i>

986
00:49:44.983 --> 00:49:47.043
<i>V8 Supercars winners!</i>

987
00:49:47.143 --> 00:49:49.603
[Smy] If you're not at the
pointy end all the time

988
00:49:49.703 --> 00:49:53.363
then it's easy to just
disappear into oblivion.

989
00:49:53.463 --> 00:49:56.902
[gentle music]

990
00:49:59.902 --> 00:50:03.182
[Renee] I reckon I probably
was alone for like six months.

991
00:50:04.862 --> 00:50:06.682
I thought about
moving back home

992
00:50:06.782 --> 00:50:09.362
but Dad and I,
we still had a very broken

993
00:50:09.462 --> 00:50:11.921
and disconnected
relationship still.

994
00:50:12.021 --> 00:50:15.081
It definitely wasn't the same.

995
00:50:15.181 --> 00:50:20.521
A very weird time to realise
that - had no one, had nothing.

996
00:50:20.621 --> 00:50:23.861
When racing stopped,
pretty much everything stopped.

997
00:50:25.700 --> 00:50:28.520
I realised that I was actually
like really depressed

998
00:50:28.620 --> 00:50:31.160
and really just hated myself
and hated everybody

999
00:50:31.260 --> 00:50:32.240
and hated my life

1000
00:50:32.340 --> 00:50:36.660
because I wasn't actually
living a life for me.

1001
00:50:45.339 --> 00:50:49.279
I didn't realise how badly
I was being controlled

1002
00:50:49.379 --> 00:50:52.958
or how badly I was being
forced to be this thing

1003
00:50:53.058 --> 00:50:55.058
that they were
making me out to be.

1004
00:50:55.818 --> 00:50:57.938
[camera clicking]

1005
00:50:58.818 --> 00:51:03.618
[gentle piano music]

1006
00:51:07.857 --> 00:51:09.857
[light switch clicks]

1007
00:51:13.737 --> 00:51:17.417
[upbeat music]

1008
00:51:23.856 --> 00:51:25.676
[Renee] I think when I realised
I could do whatever I want

1009
00:51:25.776 --> 00:51:29.956
it quickly felt really good,
comfortable, free,

1010
00:51:30.056 --> 00:51:32.236
just in control
of my own life.

1011
00:51:32.336 --> 00:51:35.075
I am doing my first vlog.

1012
00:51:35.175 --> 00:51:36.755
When I took over
my social medias

1013
00:51:36.855 --> 00:51:40.415
and I could actually show
like a real side of Renee.

1014
00:51:44.095 --> 00:51:46.235
For the first-time people
had seen me outside

1015
00:51:46.335 --> 00:51:47.915
of like, racing gear.

1016
00:51:48.015 --> 00:51:49.274
All of a sudden I'm in a bikini,

1017
00:51:49.374 --> 00:51:51.914
so I think that generated a lot
of interest quite quickly.

1018
00:51:52.014 --> 00:51:54.914
I saw multiple comments,
you know,

1019
00:51:55.014 --> 00:51:56.594
you should put this
on OnlyFans.

1020
00:51:56.694 --> 00:51:59.154
I was like, what the hell
is this OnlyFans thing?

1021
00:51:59.254 --> 00:52:02.114
In Google, I'm like, "What is
OnlyFans?", question mark.

1022
00:52:02.214 --> 00:52:04.213
And then obviously
it all came up.

1023
00:52:07.253 --> 00:52:08.053
The one that I watched
was about a girl

1024
00:52:08.053 --> 00:52:10.873
who was uploading
explicit content.

1025
00:52:10.973 --> 00:52:15.793
Just bikini photos, basically
what I was putting on Instagram.

1026
00:52:15.893 --> 00:52:17.672
I was like, oh, I'm already
doing that, what do you mean?

1027
00:52:17.772 --> 00:52:19.812
Like, people are going to pay
for that? Like, that's fine.

1028
00:52:23.892 --> 00:52:27.392
Two days later I made
an OnlyFans page.

1029
00:52:27.492 --> 00:52:28.832
There was really not much
thought process

1030
00:52:28.932 --> 00:52:32.431
put into it at all,
like almost zero.

1031
00:52:32.531 --> 00:52:33.271
Gives me something to do,

1032
00:52:33.371 --> 00:52:34.911
make a little bit of money
on the side,

1033
00:52:35.011 --> 00:52:36.071
a couple of hundred
bucks a month.

1034
00:52:36.171 --> 00:52:37.911
And I was like, oh,
I better post a photo

1035
00:52:38.011 --> 00:52:40.131
and just like took a photo -
post.

1036
00:52:40.851 --> 00:52:42.851
It went crazy!

1037
00:52:44.291 --> 00:52:46.390
I had my notifications
on my phone

1038
00:52:46.490 --> 00:52:48.550
and then it was just like
ding, ding, ding, ding.

1039
00:52:48.650 --> 00:52:51.510
My whole screen was just
all with these blue squares

1040
00:52:51.610 --> 00:52:52.750
of all these subscribers.

1041
00:52:52.850 --> 00:52:54.270
Within the first fifteen minutes

1042
00:52:54.370 --> 00:52:56.550
I had like 2,300 people
on my OnlyFans.

1043
00:52:56.650 --> 00:52:58.110
And they were all
paying to be there

1044
00:52:58.210 --> 00:52:59.429
so I had all this money
coming in as well.

1045
00:52:59.529 --> 00:53:03.429
It was, you know,
20, 30, thousand dollars, US.

1046
00:53:03.529 --> 00:53:07.589
My first reaction was just -
Fuck! What do I do?

1047
00:53:07.689 --> 00:53:10.229
Every new subscriber
had messaged me,

1048
00:53:10.329 --> 00:53:11.389
I had thousands
of messages.

1049
00:53:11.489 --> 00:53:14.948
Some guys were so blunt
and crazy and just be like,

1050
00:53:15.048 --> 00:53:16.028
"How much to see pussy?"

1051
00:53:16.128 --> 00:53:18.988
Or, "I want to see your
butthole, how much?"

1052
00:53:19.088 --> 00:53:20.428
Like, they were just
straight to the point.

1053
00:53:20.528 --> 00:53:22.348
Well it sort of took
me by surprise.

1054
00:53:22.448 --> 00:53:28.007
So, so many supportive,
caring messages from race fans.

1055
00:53:32.207 --> 00:53:33.827
Those messages made
me feel really good.

1056
00:53:33.927 --> 00:53:35.387
I didn't think anyone
gave a shit about me.

1057
00:53:35.487 --> 00:53:39.487
And I thought, well I should
probably go and tell Dad.

1058
00:53:42.366 --> 00:53:45.306
[Ray] Yeah, she just borrowed
$2,500 from me

1059
00:53:45.406 --> 00:53:47.906
to put an exhaust
on her Mustang.

1060
00:53:48.006 --> 00:53:49.786
Then a couple of weeks later,
she said,

1061
00:53:49.886 --> 00:53:53.946
"Oh, a few of my fans have
said I could join this thing

1062
00:53:54.046 --> 00:53:55.785
"and you can make
some money out of it."

1063
00:53:55.885 --> 00:53:56.985
I said, "Oh yeah, okay."

1064
00:53:57.085 --> 00:54:00.025
My idea is just a simple little
thing where, you know,

1065
00:54:00.125 --> 00:54:01.185
you chat with your fans.

1066
00:54:01.285 --> 00:54:03.385
I didn't even bother
going to research it.

1067
00:54:03.485 --> 00:54:04.465
And then she said,

1068
00:54:04.565 --> 00:54:07.265
"Oh, I'll give you the money
back for the exhaust."

1069
00:54:07.365 --> 00:54:08.185
And I'm thinking,

1070
00:54:08.285 --> 00:54:10.824
how much money are you
making out of this thing?

1071
00:54:10.924 --> 00:54:13.504
[Renee] By this time
I was up to like, $80,000.

1072
00:54:13.604 --> 00:54:14.944
Like it had just been crazy.

1073
00:54:15.044 --> 00:54:18.064
That was just in like a
couple of days, essentially.

1074
00:54:18.164 --> 00:54:19.984
I was pretty happy because
I got my money back

1075
00:54:20.084 --> 00:54:22.384
for the bloody exhaust.

1076
00:54:22.484 --> 00:54:24.903
Because based on previous
history that money was dead.

1077
00:54:25.003 --> 00:54:26.623
I was never going
to see it again.

1078
00:54:26.723 --> 00:54:28.343
[Renee] I was so excited.

1079
00:54:28.443 --> 00:54:31.783
I just remember thinking like,
I am fucking rich.

1080
00:54:31.883 --> 00:54:33.343
Like, because I was so broke.

1081
00:54:33.443 --> 00:54:36.023
I had never had that much money
in my bank account ever.

1082
00:54:36.123 --> 00:54:38.502
She lived all those
years racing cars

1083
00:54:38.602 --> 00:54:42.422
making nothing, living off
one tin of bloody tuna a night,

1084
00:54:42.522 --> 00:54:43.942
to all of a sudden
having something

1085
00:54:44.042 --> 00:54:46.302
that she's in complete
and total control of

1086
00:54:46.402 --> 00:54:49.142
that's making a motza.

1087
00:54:49.242 --> 00:54:52.261
[Ray] So, the transition
for her financially

1088
00:54:52.361 --> 00:54:54.681
was just incredibly different.

1089
00:54:56.401 --> 00:54:58.741
The old accountant in me
had to go back to work

1090
00:54:58.841 --> 00:55:01.661
and start managing
the money.

1091
00:55:01.761 --> 00:55:03.981
So Dad made me pay off
my Afterpay account.

1092
00:55:04.081 --> 00:55:06.340
He made me pay
out my car loan

1093
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.420
and then I went
and bought a house.

1094
00:55:08.520 --> 00:55:12.000
[dramatic music]

1095
00:55:20.839 --> 00:55:22.959
[Renee] I started
to go a bit viral.

1096
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:26.179
[man] When good girls go bad!

1097
00:55:26.279 --> 00:55:29.539
Renee Gracie has
become a porn star.

1098
00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:31.859
[reporter] Creating racy
adults only content

1099
00:55:31.959 --> 00:55:34.738
on the internet site
OnlyFans.

1100
00:55:34.838 --> 00:55:38.218
[Renee] There was thousands
of articles written about me.

1101
00:55:38.318 --> 00:55:41.138
The ex-racing car driver
turned porn star.

1102
00:55:41.238 --> 00:55:42.138
[man] The twenty-five-year-old

1103
00:55:42.238 --> 00:55:47.178
claimed to have made
$64,000 in three days.

1104
00:55:47.278 --> 00:55:49.577
I didn't know so many people
wanted to see me naked.

1105
00:55:49.677 --> 00:55:50.497
One thing led to another.

1106
00:55:50.597 --> 00:55:52.257
The more articles
that got written,

1107
00:55:52.357 --> 00:55:53.697
the better my page went.

1108
00:55:53.797 --> 00:55:55.797
Then it just blew up.

1109
00:56:00.277 --> 00:56:02.296
[photographer] There we go.

1110
00:56:02.396 --> 00:56:03.416
Let's start with some portraits.

1111
00:56:03.516 --> 00:56:04.696
[Renee] Yep.

1112
00:56:04.796 --> 00:56:05.896
[photographer]
What do you think?

1113
00:56:05.996 --> 00:56:06.336
Love!

1114
00:56:06.436 --> 00:56:07.736
- [photographer] Makes sense?
- [Renee] Good. Yep.

1115
00:56:07.836 --> 00:56:09.016
- [photographer] Okay, cool.
- [Renee] Good colour.

1116
00:56:09.116 --> 00:56:11.276
[photographer] Okay?
Yep, derobe.

1117
00:56:12.596 --> 00:56:14.336
[Renee] My evolution
was a slow one

1118
00:56:14.436 --> 00:56:18.735
and I think that's what aided
to my success in OnlyFans.

1119
00:56:18.835 --> 00:56:22.175
What I felt uncomfortable
doing in the beginning

1120
00:56:22.275 --> 00:56:24.095
was being naked,
being topless.

1121
00:56:24.195 --> 00:56:25.175
[photographer]
That's great. Perfect.

1122
00:56:25.275 --> 00:56:26.375
Having put that leg forward.

1123
00:56:26.475 --> 00:56:28.415
[camera clicking]

1124
00:56:28.515 --> 00:56:29.415
[photographer] Rad!

1125
00:56:29.515 --> 00:56:31.854
[Renee] So when I shifted
from bikini photos,

1126
00:56:31.954 --> 00:56:33.954
I moved into lingerie photos.

1127
00:56:35.034 --> 00:56:38.474
[gentle upbeat music]

1128
00:56:41.874 --> 00:56:42.634
[Renee] A year down the track,

1129
00:56:42.634 --> 00:56:46.293
I started to do nudes and
started to do my own videos.

1130
00:56:46.393 --> 00:56:49.333
It was really just a
very slow progression.

1131
00:56:49.433 --> 00:56:51.833
I never did anything
I wasn't comfortable with.

1132
00:56:56.313 --> 00:56:59.892
[Renee] Um, the decision
to have sex on camera,

1133
00:56:59.992 --> 00:57:01.412
for me it just felt
like something

1134
00:57:01.512 --> 00:57:02.532
that I was comfortable to do.

1135
00:57:02.632 --> 00:57:05.832
It was just like a, yeah, first
ever sex video - unlock to see.

1136
00:57:09.832 --> 00:57:12.132
That was the making of my page.

1137
00:57:12.232 --> 00:57:15.011
I really offered everything
from that point on.

1138
00:57:15.111 --> 00:57:17.631
My earnings just went
through the roof.

1139
00:57:22.711 --> 00:57:24.011
Dad was doing my accounts,

1140
00:57:24.111 --> 00:57:26.051
so Dad could figure out
that I all of a sudden,

1141
00:57:26.151 --> 00:57:28.890
I was going, you know,
$80,000 a month

1142
00:57:28.990 --> 00:57:31.930
and the next month I might
have gone up to like 120!

1143
00:57:32.030 --> 00:57:33.610
I'm not stupid, I'm not naive.

1144
00:57:33.710 --> 00:57:36.210
I'm figuring it there's probably
a bit more to it than I know.

1145
00:57:36.310 --> 00:57:38.210
He put two and two
together and he's like,

1146
00:57:38.310 --> 00:57:39.090
"What are you doing?"

1147
00:57:39.190 --> 00:57:39.970
Renee then fessed up.

1148
00:57:40.070 --> 00:57:41.689
She had to tell me about,
kind of,

1149
00:57:41.789 --> 00:57:43.689
the concepts of the movies.

1150
00:57:43.789 --> 00:57:44.589
It's a bit of an
awkward conversation

1151
00:57:44.589 --> 00:57:46.769
to have with your dad
but, um,

1152
00:57:46.869 --> 00:57:48.809
anyway I was sort of just like,
uh, I was like,

1153
00:57:48.909 --> 00:57:51.249
I'm just happy fucking on film
and making all this money Dad,

1154
00:57:51.349 --> 00:57:53.349
get over it.

1155
00:57:53.989 --> 00:57:54.768
I'm pretty easy.

1156
00:57:54.868 --> 00:57:58.488
She's on OnlyFans.
She's a porn star.

1157
00:57:58.588 --> 00:58:00.088
That's how I describe her.

1158
00:58:00.188 --> 00:58:01.248
Then people are so shocked

1159
00:58:01.348 --> 00:58:05.008
that they're too scared
to ask any more questions.

1160
00:58:05.108 --> 00:58:06.488
[photographer]
I'm going to count you in.

1161
00:58:06.588 --> 00:58:08.927
Stay flat footed and
then go to your toes.

1162
00:58:09.027 --> 00:58:11.407
Okay, here we go.
Three, two, one, go!

1163
00:58:11.507 --> 00:58:12.127
[Ray] What is she doing?

1164
00:58:12.227 --> 00:58:15.647
She's in complete and total
control of her own career.

1165
00:58:15.747 --> 00:58:17.527
She's not hurting anybody.

1166
00:58:17.627 --> 00:58:20.347
Makes a lot of people happy.

1167
00:58:21.867 --> 00:58:24.466
[tense music]

1168
00:58:27.186 --> 00:58:31.286
[Renee] The feeling that
I got from Supercars was,

1169
00:58:31.386 --> 00:58:35.726
don't mention Renee Gracie and
Supercars in the same sentence.

1170
00:58:35.826 --> 00:58:38.845
They pushed me so hard
to be this sex symbol,

1171
00:58:38.945 --> 00:58:40.365
this attractive looking girl

1172
00:58:40.465 --> 00:58:41.965
that would earn them
lots of money.

1173
00:58:42.065 --> 00:58:43.805
So it was okay for
you to benefit from it

1174
00:58:43.905 --> 00:58:45.925
but now you're not getting
the millions of dollars

1175
00:58:46.025 --> 00:58:48.445
in your back pocket -
it's like, oh no, no comment,

1176
00:58:48.545 --> 00:58:49.485
I don't want anything
to do with it.

1177
00:58:49.585 --> 00:58:51.164
So I've basically
just been wiped

1178
00:58:51.264 --> 00:58:54.004
from the memory of
anything Supercars related.

1179
00:58:54.104 --> 00:58:57.144
So that is funny and
interesting to me.

1180
00:58:58.224 --> 00:59:02.144
[gentle music]
[birds calling]

1181
00:59:04.864 --> 00:59:08.043
[chickens clucking]

1182
00:59:08.143 --> 00:59:09.403
[Renee] Being in motorsport
for so long

1183
00:59:09.503 --> 00:59:10.603
I always felt kind of lonely

1184
00:59:10.703 --> 00:59:13.203
and didn't have
a lot of friends.

1185
00:59:13.303 --> 00:59:16.563
Chickens are the best.
Ow!

1186
00:59:16.663 --> 00:59:18.563
I was a bit nervous when
I started OnlyFans,

1187
00:59:18.663 --> 00:59:21.122
about being
involved with women,

1188
00:59:21.222 --> 00:59:22.882
just having to
collaborate with them.

1189
00:59:22.982 --> 00:59:26.202
I didn't think anyone would have
anything in common with me

1190
00:59:26.302 --> 00:59:28.382
and they wouldn't want
to be friends with me.

1191
00:59:34.541 --> 00:59:36.921
[Tayla] Probably one of the
most fun things we've done -

1192
00:59:37.021 --> 00:59:39.441
fully nude hot air ballooning
over the Gold Coast

1193
00:59:39.541 --> 00:59:40.961
with a champagne breakfast.

1194
00:59:41.061 --> 00:59:43.641
Oh yeah, fucking, that was
probably one of the best ones.

1195
00:59:43.741 --> 00:59:46.121
[Renee] I started realising that
these girls were intelligent,

1196
00:59:46.221 --> 00:59:47.640
they were educated.

1197
00:59:47.740 --> 00:59:49.160
Everything that
I had been told

1198
00:59:49.260 --> 00:59:52.160
of what these girls were like,
was the opposite.

1199
00:59:52.260 --> 00:59:53.480
- What was that car you had?
- Renee] The AMG.

1200
00:59:53.580 --> 00:59:55.280
She had an AMG and
we drove somewhere

1201
00:59:55.380 --> 00:59:57.560
and she drove really fast
and it was really scary.

1202
00:59:57.660 --> 00:59:58.680
[Renee] I drove - I went to 80!
I didn't...

1203
00:59:58.780 --> 01:00:00.360
It felt like 3000!

1204
01:00:00.460 --> 01:00:02.239
[both laughing]

1205
01:00:02.339 --> 01:00:04.079
[Renee] Some of like
my best friendships

1206
01:00:04.179 --> 01:00:05.019
are because of girls
in OnlyFans,

1207
01:00:05.019 --> 01:00:06.119
which I find
quite funny because

1208
01:00:06.219 --> 01:00:08.379
I never thought that
that would be the case.

1209
01:00:09.699 --> 01:00:11.919
Hi guys, welcome to my 'live'.

1210
01:00:12.019 --> 01:00:14.279
Today I have a
very special guest.

1211
01:00:14.379 --> 01:00:16.758
My best friend, Tayla.

1212
01:00:16.858 --> 01:00:18.238
Today we are doing a
'spin the wheel'.

1213
01:00:18.338 --> 01:00:21.358
We've got 'kissing', 'name
on chest', 'twerking',

1214
01:00:21.458 --> 01:00:26.118
'topless pictures' and a 'custom
video' with Tayla and I.

1215
01:00:26.218 --> 01:00:26.878
Yeah!

1216
01:00:26.978 --> 01:00:29.018
- We're spinning for Daniel.
- [Tayla] Go!

1217
01:00:30.697 --> 01:00:33.437
[both] Kissing!

1218
01:00:33.537 --> 01:00:35.797
[Renee] I've done stuff
with multiple girls before

1219
01:00:35.897 --> 01:00:39.037
and it's just been this very
fluid communication.

1220
01:00:39.137 --> 01:00:41.437
I'm going to do this to you,
do I have your consent?

1221
01:00:41.537 --> 01:00:43.996
I feel like with guys
everything's like rough

1222
01:00:44.096 --> 01:00:45.996
and like it's all like fuck,
heavy breathing

1223
01:00:46.096 --> 01:00:48.096
and like just men being men.

1224
01:00:48.536 --> 01:00:49.916
[Tayla] 'Name on chest'.

1225
01:00:50.016 --> 01:00:53.316
[Renee] It's just a really nice
environment I find with women.

1226
01:00:53.416 --> 01:00:55.036
[Tayla] Steve's fighting
for real estate.

1227
01:00:55.136 --> 01:00:57.416
Steve really likes shoulders.

1228
01:01:00.495 --> 01:01:02.715
[Renee] OnlyFans flipped
the industry on its head

1229
01:01:02.815 --> 01:01:05.115
and gave porn stars
a lot more control

1230
01:01:05.215 --> 01:01:08.155
over the content that they
were appearing in.

1231
01:01:08.255 --> 01:01:10.255
It's all me. It's no one else.

1232
01:01:12.254 --> 01:01:15.654
Women are in
control of this industry.

1233
01:01:17.454 --> 01:01:19.854
[both laughing]

1234
01:01:22.494 --> 01:01:26.153
[Renee] So this is where
the magic happens.

1235
01:01:26.253 --> 01:01:30.853
I've got lingerie sets,
props, lights.

1236
01:01:32.173 --> 01:01:34.193
My first draw and the
most important draw

1237
01:01:34.293 --> 01:01:35.913
is my dildo draw.

1238
01:01:36.013 --> 01:01:40.632
These are the essentials
for my day-to-day work roster.

1239
01:01:40.732 --> 01:01:45.832
And I have accumulated a very
interesting array of dildos.

1240
01:01:45.932 --> 01:01:49.032
I never thought I would have a
draw like this but here we are.

1241
01:01:49.132 --> 01:01:53.392
I've got my old race suits.

1242
01:01:53.492 --> 01:01:56.631
Um, from when I used
to race at the Bathurst 1000.

1243
01:01:56.731 --> 01:01:58.971
It's just nice to have them.

1244
01:02:01.291 --> 01:02:03.111
[Renee] Starting my OnlyFans,

1245
01:02:03.211 --> 01:02:04.471
it was probably one
of the best things

1246
01:02:04.571 --> 01:02:07.631
to have ever happened to me,
to be honest.

1247
01:02:07.731 --> 01:02:10.710
But, all of the stress and
pressure from my weight

1248
01:02:10.810 --> 01:02:15.430
and how I looked through my
whole career in motorsport...

1249
01:02:15.530 --> 01:02:20.970
It just sort of had effects
later on, um, in life for me.

1250
01:02:23.009 --> 01:02:25.549
I had lipo on my chin,
lipo on my back,

1251
01:02:25.649 --> 01:02:30.429
lipo on my arms,
lipo on my belly.

1252
01:02:30.529 --> 01:02:34.069
I just felt that I had
this unwritten rule

1253
01:02:34.169 --> 01:02:35.349
that I finally had
the opportunity

1254
01:02:35.449 --> 01:02:37.628
to make myself look the
way that I had been told

1255
01:02:37.728 --> 01:02:39.068
I should have looked
for so long.

1256
01:02:39.168 --> 01:02:40.948
So I just went and did it.

1257
01:02:41.048 --> 01:02:43.188
So I got my boobs done, twice.

1258
01:02:43.288 --> 01:02:45.828
Had two Brazilian butt lifts,

1259
01:02:45.928 --> 01:02:49.668
and then I have had lots of
Botox in my face as well,

1260
01:02:49.768 --> 01:02:51.767
to the point where
it doesn't move.

1261
01:02:55.207 --> 01:02:58.607
All of a sudden I, I think it
like all caught up with me.

1262
01:03:02.607 --> 01:03:06.886
[pensive electronic music]

1263
01:03:10.006 --> 01:03:13.086
[Renee] I need to face my past.

1264
01:03:17.406 --> 01:03:21.445
[birds calling]

1265
01:03:22.725 --> 01:03:25.605
[truck revving]

1266
01:03:32.964 --> 01:03:34.964
[hand brake clicking]

1267
01:03:35.284 --> 01:03:37.284
What's this one?

1268
01:03:37.684 --> 01:03:38.624
None of those.

1269
01:03:38.724 --> 01:03:41.444
You don't want to be looking
at any school photos.

1270
01:03:42.884 --> 01:03:43.944
[Ray] Well it's been
a long time since

1271
01:03:44.044 --> 01:03:45.784
I've looked at any of these.

1272
01:03:45.884 --> 01:03:48.023
[Renee] My mum used to
make me scrapbook

1273
01:03:48.123 --> 01:03:50.723
and then I just did it for fun.

1274
01:03:52.683 --> 01:03:54.863
That's when we got hooked.

1275
01:03:54.963 --> 01:03:57.743
My only skill,
pouring petrol in.

1276
01:03:57.843 --> 01:03:59.583
[Renee] Oh you couldn't even
do that properly sometimes.

1277
01:03:59.683 --> 01:04:01.742
[Ray chuckling]

1278
01:04:01.842 --> 01:04:05.142
[Ray] We used to pinch
a day off school,

1279
01:04:05.242 --> 01:04:09.402
and we would just do lap,
after lap, after lap, after lap.

1280
01:04:11.962 --> 01:04:14.262
[Ray] When that dream evaporated

1281
01:04:14.362 --> 01:04:17.181
I always saw it as
a missed opportunity.

1282
01:04:17.281 --> 01:04:21.641
I just could see
that she was good at it.

1283
01:04:23.561 --> 01:04:27.201
[Ray] All your Karting bibles.
I'd forgotten about these.

1284
01:04:28.041 --> 01:04:30.260
So after every session

1285
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:33.180
you'd go around and write
your description of the,

1286
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:34.620
of what happened
on the track.

1287
01:04:34.720 --> 01:04:39.020
[Renee] Every single corner of
every single lap I would review.

1288
01:04:39.120 --> 01:04:40.740
So corner three -

1289
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:44.019
"I feel like I have to slow the
Kart right up to turn in,

1290
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.219
"and to wait to get on the
gas at the right time."

1291
01:04:46.319 --> 01:04:48.579
And the mid corner - "I feel
if I get the entry right,

1292
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:50.619
"I should be able to get
on the gas at the apex.

1293
01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:52.799
"Get it perfect!"

1294
01:05:12.317 --> 01:05:16.917
[funky music]

1295
01:05:18.637 --> 01:05:21.997
[truck accelerating]

1296
01:05:25.916 --> 01:05:27.696
[Renee] If I was to go back,

1297
01:05:27.796 --> 01:05:31.916
the main thing would
be to be in control.

1298
01:05:35.476 --> 01:05:38.576
To return on my terms,
not their terms.

1299
01:05:38.676 --> 01:05:40.015
To see how the
results would be

1300
01:05:40.115 --> 01:05:43.735
and to see how much
better it could be,

1301
01:05:43.835 --> 01:05:46.035
is one of the main drivers.

1302
01:05:51.715 --> 01:05:53.994
[phone dialling]

1303
01:05:55.994 --> 01:05:57.934
Oh hello,
this is Renee Gracie...

1304
01:05:58.034 --> 01:05:59.254
Oh hi, it's Renee Gracie...

1305
01:05:59.354 --> 01:06:00.134
Renee Gracie here...

1306
01:06:00.234 --> 01:06:02.814
I'm just looking for Robert
from the Daily Mail please.

1307
01:06:02.914 --> 01:06:04.214
I was wondering
if I could get in touch

1308
01:06:04.314 --> 01:06:06.414
with Steve from
Sports A.U. please.

1309
01:06:06.514 --> 01:06:07.693
Kate from The Project please.

1310
01:06:07.793 --> 01:06:10.613
Yes, so I am planning
a return to motorsport.

1311
01:06:10.713 --> 01:06:12.053
I think it's been
long enough,

1312
01:06:12.153 --> 01:06:14.493
between when I was
in a car last to now...

1313
01:06:14.593 --> 01:06:15.693
...my own circumstances...

1314
01:06:15.793 --> 01:06:16.853
[Renee] I feel like there's
no better way

1315
01:06:16.953 --> 01:06:19.173
than the buy my own
team and return!

1316
01:06:19.273 --> 01:06:20.333
[TV presenter]
And now Australia's

1317
01:06:20.433 --> 01:06:21.972
first female Supercar driver

1318
01:06:22.072 --> 01:06:23.772
is plotting her
big return to racing.

1319
01:06:23.872 --> 01:06:24.912
In fact she wants to
buy the whole team.

1320
01:06:24.912 --> 01:06:27.572
Yeah, well I've got a bit of
spare money sitting around.

1321
01:06:27.672 --> 01:06:28.932
[Sara Harris] Are you
aiming for Bathurst?

1322
01:06:29.032 --> 01:06:31.172
[Renee] Yeah. Yep.
They do wildcard entries.

1323
01:06:31.272 --> 01:06:32.572
So I thought,
why not do it again?

1324
01:06:32.672 --> 01:06:35.891
I feel like it's just a bit of a
redemption to re-join Supercars.

1325
01:06:35.991 --> 01:06:37.331
Do it at the 1000.

1326
01:06:37.431 --> 01:06:39.691
[Smy] You don't just
get into Supercars.

1327
01:06:39.791 --> 01:06:43.371
[man] She delusionally thinks
that because of her profile,

1328
01:06:43.471 --> 01:06:45.891
Supercars are just going to,
you know, thumbs up.

1329
01:06:45.991 --> 01:06:47.531
Come on, Renee.

1330
01:06:47.631 --> 01:06:49.490
[Smy] You can't just
be a wildcard.

1331
01:06:49.590 --> 01:06:50.810
I don't really watch
the racing anymore.

1332
01:06:50.910 --> 01:06:53.450
It's a little bit boring.
It's flat, very repetitive.

1333
01:06:53.550 --> 01:06:56.370
Motorsport isn't a friendly
sport for women in general,

1334
01:06:56.470 --> 01:06:58.370
let alone women
doing what I'm doing.

1335
01:06:58.470 --> 01:07:00.290
A lot of people are going
to make it difficult

1336
01:07:00.390 --> 01:07:01.450
for me to come back in.

1337
01:07:01.550 --> 01:07:02.330
[phone ringing]

1338
01:07:02.430 --> 01:07:03.369
Hello, Renee Gracie speaking.

1339
01:07:03.469 --> 01:07:04.969
[Smy] Supercars isn't
going to help you

1340
01:07:05.069 --> 01:07:06.689
if you're super
critical of them...

1341
01:07:06.789 --> 01:07:07.969
...uh, either.

1342
01:07:08.069 --> 01:07:09.089
I think it needs some spice.

1343
01:07:09.189 --> 01:07:11.249
A female racing car driver
who's done porn,

1344
01:07:11.349 --> 01:07:12.649
I think that'll bring lots
of eyes to the TV.

1345
01:07:12.749 --> 01:07:14.769
[man] It's just
a publicity stunt.

1346
01:07:14.869 --> 01:07:17.768
It's probably going to sell
her more, um, OnlyFans.

1347
01:07:17.868 --> 01:07:19.288
If I can get back to Bathurst

1348
01:07:19.388 --> 01:07:22.328
I'll be bringing the pussywagon
back out, that's for sure.

1349
01:07:22.428 --> 01:07:24.428
[photographer]
That's great, perfect.

1350
01:07:32.547 --> 01:07:33.967
Ten.

1351
01:07:34.067 --> 01:07:37.447
[Renee] It's very important
to have eyes on the story.

1352
01:07:37.547 --> 01:07:40.287
It's quite easy to sort of shut
it down in the background.

1353
01:07:40.387 --> 01:07:41.607
It's definitely
keeping them honest

1354
01:07:41.707 --> 01:07:44.507
and holding them
accountable for what they do.

1355
01:07:46.226 --> 01:07:48.926
The 1000 was a
point of my career

1356
01:07:49.026 --> 01:07:51.566
that I think made and broke me
all at the same time.

1357
01:07:51.666 --> 01:07:53.846
So I think there's
a bit of redemption,

1358
01:07:53.946 --> 01:07:55.846
of going back into the 1000.

1359
01:07:55.946 --> 01:07:57.966
To show and prove
that I can do it

1360
01:07:58.066 --> 01:08:01.605
and be a successful
racing car driver.

1361
01:08:01.705 --> 01:08:03.705
What ya doing?

1362
01:08:08.385 --> 01:08:12.625
[tense music]

1363
01:08:27.464 --> 01:08:29.363
"Former Supercar driver,
Renee Gracie,

1364
01:08:29.463 --> 01:08:33.123
"was hoping to make her comeback
in this year's Bathurst 1000,

1365
01:08:33.223 --> 01:08:36.603
"but it seems the sport's
governing body isn't buying it,

1366
01:08:36.703 --> 01:08:40.043
"branding her move
a publicity stunt.

1367
01:08:40.143 --> 01:08:44.162
"She is just using the
sport to sell more videos.

1368
01:08:44.262 --> 01:08:46.162
"It's not even worth
commenting on

1369
01:08:46.262 --> 01:08:49.382
"because it's just not
going to happen."

1370
01:08:51.542 --> 01:08:55.362
Burns a little fire inside
of me to prove a point

1371
01:08:55.462 --> 01:08:57.461
and prove them wrong.

1372
01:09:02.421 --> 01:09:03.481
[Renee] Called Dad up
and I was like,

1373
01:09:03.581 --> 01:09:07.241
we need to work out how we
get back into the Bathurst 1000.

1374
01:09:07.341 --> 01:09:09.321
He's just like who are we
going to get for a manager?

1375
01:09:09.421 --> 01:09:11.420
I was like,
isn't that obvious?

1376
01:09:15.740 --> 01:09:19.820
[funky hip-hop music]

1377
01:09:31.099 --> 01:09:33.519
You get her out on the track,
and you can do it.

1378
01:09:33.619 --> 01:09:35.599
Think of the fun we'll have.
Alright, done.

1379
01:09:35.699 --> 01:09:36.719
[Ray] Moving back this time,

1380
01:09:36.819 --> 01:09:41.558
it was important she be in
total control of everything.

1381
01:09:41.658 --> 01:09:43.598
My job was to
help her do that,

1382
01:09:43.698 --> 01:09:46.558
to make sure that we go with
somebody we can trust.

1383
01:09:46.658 --> 01:09:48.898
How on earth am I going
to go racing again?

1384
01:09:51.538 --> 01:09:53.917
[Renee] But what else is there
that's not Supercar

1385
01:09:54.017 --> 01:09:56.077
or something that has
a chance to leapfrog you

1386
01:09:56.177 --> 01:09:57.717
into the Bathurst 1000?

1387
01:09:57.817 --> 01:10:01.357
My initial first thoughts was
to go back into Porsche.

1388
01:10:01.457 --> 01:10:02.677
[Renee] I had many people

1389
01:10:02.777 --> 01:10:04.077
who would answer my
phone calls and go,

1390
01:10:04.177 --> 01:10:04.957
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

1391
01:10:05.057 --> 01:10:06.156
Okay, that's great.

1392
01:10:06.256 --> 01:10:07.236
[Renee] And then two weeks later

1393
01:10:07.336 --> 01:10:08.136
they're not returning
my phone calls

1394
01:10:08.136 --> 01:10:10.556
and they've just like
completely ghosted me.

1395
01:10:10.656 --> 01:10:12.436
I did hear that there
were other teams saying,

1396
01:10:12.536 --> 01:10:14.796
"Don't let her back in here
and that'd be a disgrace."

1397
01:10:14.896 --> 01:10:16.316
And that's when
things started to get

1398
01:10:16.416 --> 01:10:17.916
a little bit tense and tricky.

1399
01:10:18.016 --> 01:10:19.156
[phone chimes]

1400
01:10:19.256 --> 01:10:24.295
[Renee] Then I got a text
message from the GT Series.

1401
01:10:25.415 --> 01:10:28.615
[cars roaring]

1402
01:10:30.135 --> 01:10:32.075
[narrator] The GT World
Challenge features

1403
01:10:32.175 --> 01:10:35.754
some of the most extreme
race cars in the world.

1404
01:10:35.854 --> 01:10:38.994
Audi, Ferrari, Lamborghini,
Mercedes AMG,

1405
01:10:39.094 --> 01:10:40.434
and the GT World Challenge

1406
01:10:40.534 --> 01:10:43.594
is racing circuits
across the globe.

1407
01:10:43.694 --> 01:10:44.994
[Renee] It's very exciting.

1408
01:10:45.094 --> 01:10:48.333
It's a unique category that's
coming into Australia.

1409
01:10:50.093 --> 01:10:52.713
We started to chat
with the GT guys

1410
01:10:52.813 --> 01:10:53.673
and they basically said,

1411
01:10:53.773 --> 01:10:56.313
"We want you and
we want to support you.

1412
01:10:56.413 --> 01:10:58.273
"What can we do
to help you?

1413
01:10:58.373 --> 01:11:02.133
"It has a chance to leapfrog you
into a wildcard at Bathurst."

1414
01:11:03.292 --> 01:11:06.832
Then I thought of Mark Griffith.

1415
01:11:06.932 --> 01:11:09.312
[Renee] Griffo is one of the
main team owners

1416
01:11:09.412 --> 01:11:11.192
on the GT Series.

1417
01:11:11.292 --> 01:11:14.032
He races cars himself.

1418
01:11:14.132 --> 01:11:17.111
This is what GT racing's
all about. Cool cars.

1419
01:11:17.211 --> 01:11:19.631
[Griffith] Renee's dad
had already told me

1420
01:11:19.731 --> 01:11:22.271
that she couldn't go and race
in some of the other places.

1421
01:11:22.371 --> 01:11:24.911
They either didn't
want her or it didn't fit

1422
01:11:25.011 --> 01:11:28.031
or they're just dickheads -

1423
01:11:28.131 --> 01:11:29.831
which is a bit disappointing.

1424
01:11:29.931 --> 01:11:32.030
A bit narrow minded in
this day and age as well.

1425
01:11:32.130 --> 01:11:33.470
And he rang me and said,

1426
01:11:33.570 --> 01:11:36.830
"So can Renee run a
GT car and be with you?"

1427
01:11:36.930 --> 01:11:38.230
And the answer was, "Yes."

1428
01:11:38.330 --> 01:11:40.310
We're going to
get you into GT 3.

1429
01:11:40.410 --> 01:11:44.110
[Griffith] We set some standard
ground rules that said,

1430
01:11:44.210 --> 01:11:45.989
she's just there to race cars,

1431
01:11:46.089 --> 01:11:49.069
we don't go to OnlyFans
parties or any of that.

1432
01:11:49.169 --> 01:11:51.029
Whether they have them
or not I don't know, but,

1433
01:11:51.129 --> 01:11:53.729
if you find out you let us know
because we're not going.

1434
01:11:55.689 --> 01:11:58.548
[Renee] My original
plan to return,

1435
01:11:58.648 --> 01:12:00.868
I just was thinking like the
only way I'm going to do this

1436
01:12:00.968 --> 01:12:02.708
is if I just buy
my own bloody car,

1437
01:12:02.808 --> 01:12:05.628
if I buy my own
race team.

1438
01:12:05.728 --> 01:12:09.948
And then all of a sudden,
the right opportunity arose.

1439
01:12:10.048 --> 01:12:11.748
I've got a sponsor on board

1440
01:12:11.848 --> 01:12:14.007
and you might have heard
of them before.

1441
01:12:16.287 --> 01:12:20.007
[upbeat music]

1442
01:12:47.045 --> 01:12:49.025
[Renee] It's not me putting in
any money to go racing,

1443
01:12:49.125 --> 01:12:51.465
they've actually given me
a budget and money,

1444
01:12:51.565 --> 01:12:53.565
to do the full series.

1445
01:12:56.324 --> 01:12:58.104
[Griffith] Once the
green light got clicked

1446
01:12:58.204 --> 01:13:00.884
we needed to be in Perth
in two weeks time.

1447
01:13:06.644 --> 01:13:09.863
[Renee] In the last six months
I've trained really hard,

1448
01:13:09.963 --> 01:13:11.343
I've lost twelve kilos.

1449
01:13:11.443 --> 01:13:14.503
I'm feeling strong
and I'm feeling fit.

1450
01:13:14.603 --> 01:13:16.603
Yeah, I think I'm ready.

1451
01:13:25.242 --> 01:13:27.242
[Renee] Ugh!

1452
01:13:30.882 --> 01:13:33.582
"Unfortunately we are
unable to accommodate

1453
01:13:33.682 --> 01:13:36.182
"external filming.

1454
01:13:36.282 --> 01:13:41.861
"We wish you the best with your
documentary project. Regards."

1455
01:13:41.961 --> 01:13:44.621
[Renee] The first round
is the Supercar round.

1456
01:13:44.721 --> 01:13:47.641
That means they have
control of the situation.

1457
01:13:48.801 --> 01:13:50.901
I just think it's such crap.

1458
01:13:51.001 --> 01:13:53.140
I've done media at
Supercar events before.

1459
01:13:53.240 --> 01:13:54.580
I did it for six years
of my life.

1460
01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:57.980
I knew that they would probably
try and control the situation

1461
01:13:58.080 --> 01:14:00.780
and I feel like that's probably
how they're going to be

1462
01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:03.320
all year, is it's just
going to be, "No".

1463
01:14:05.200 --> 01:14:09.239
["Are You Flirting With Me"
by OzzySynthMaster playing]

1464
01:14:13.559 --> 01:14:15.579
<i>âª Are you flirting with me âª</i>

1465
01:14:15.679 --> 01:14:18.019
<i>âª Are you in love with me âª</i>

1466
01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:20.178
<i>âª Are you flirting âª</i>

1467
01:14:20.278 --> 01:14:22.818
<i>âª 'Cause it ain't working âª</i>

1468
01:14:22.918 --> 01:14:25.178
<i>âª Are you flirting with me âª</i>

1469
01:14:25.278 --> 01:14:27.578
<i>âª Are you in love with me âª</i>

1470
01:14:27.678 --> 01:14:29.858
<i>âª Are you flirting âª</i>

1471
01:14:29.958 --> 01:14:32.158
<i>âª 'Cause it ain't working âª</i>

1472
01:14:34.317 --> 01:14:38.877
<i>âª Are you flirting
'Cause it ain't working âª</i>

1473
01:14:41.917 --> 01:14:44.357
[alarm bell chiming]

1474
01:14:45.717 --> 01:14:47.716
[alarm stops]

1475
01:14:49.756 --> 01:14:51.916
- [Ray] Morning.
- Hi Dad.

1476
01:14:56.116 --> 01:14:59.256
[Renee] Today is race day.

1477
01:14:59.356 --> 01:15:02.175
This is the first time that I'm
going to be in this race car.

1478
01:15:02.275 --> 01:15:05.415
I only saw it for the first
time the other day.

1479
01:15:05.515 --> 01:15:08.315
I haven't driven it.
I haven't even started it.

1480
01:15:09.755 --> 01:15:10.855
I feel like everyone

1481
01:15:10.955 --> 01:15:13.015
just always expects me
to be slow and crash.

1482
01:15:13.115 --> 01:15:14.575
[Ray] It's been a while too.

1483
01:15:14.675 --> 01:15:16.574
- [Renee] It's been so long...
- [Ray] It's been six years

1484
01:15:16.674 --> 01:15:17.934
since you've been
in a car this fast.

1485
01:15:18.034 --> 01:15:19.614
[Renee] Everyone thinks
that I always used to be shit

1486
01:15:19.714 --> 01:15:20.534
when I used to race.

1487
01:15:20.634 --> 01:15:23.534
How could I possibly come
back and be good? So...

1488
01:15:23.634 --> 01:15:24.574
I think deep down though,

1489
01:15:24.674 --> 01:15:27.774
it applies a lot of pressure
to Renee to get a result.

1490
01:15:27.874 --> 01:15:30.013
Pressure to not look bad.

1491
01:15:30.113 --> 01:15:33.713
You've just got to ignore that
and stick to your own plan.

1492
01:15:43.513 --> 01:15:45.092
[Renee] Yeah,
we'll see if we can get in.

1493
01:15:45.192 --> 01:15:47.592
I don't know about your camera
but we'll soon find out.

1494
01:15:51.592 --> 01:15:52.732
[Ray] Yeah, this is
the entry gate.

1495
01:15:52.832 --> 01:15:53.872
[Renee] I might - do we
just pull over here?

1496
01:15:53.872 --> 01:15:55.952
[Ray] Just pull to the side.

1497
01:15:57.592 --> 01:15:59.291
[Ray] Unwire us
and unplug us.

1498
01:15:59.391 --> 01:16:01.391
[Renee] Yeah.

1499
01:16:06.111 --> 01:16:07.651
[announcer]
Race 1 in round 2

1500
01:16:07.751 --> 01:16:09.991
of GT World Challenge,
Australia.

1501
01:16:11.751 --> 01:16:13.410
[Ruggiero] I mean,
I was even watching

1502
01:16:13.510 --> 01:16:14.370
a first round with Renee

1503
01:16:14.470 --> 01:16:17.730
and I was just waiting to see
Renee's car on, on the broadcast

1504
01:16:17.830 --> 01:16:21.130
and, um, funnily enough
I didn't see her very much,

1505
01:16:21.230 --> 01:16:23.770
and I'm wondering why.

1506
01:16:23.870 --> 01:16:26.969
[Renee] I've heard whispers that
there was a directive handed out

1507
01:16:27.069 --> 01:16:29.169
to anyone who had
a camera in their hand

1508
01:16:29.269 --> 01:16:31.269
to not show me.

1509
01:16:33.309 --> 01:16:37.669
[cars roaring]
[birds calling]

1510
01:16:42.468 --> 01:16:44.128
[announcer] It's a very
good morning here

1511
01:16:44.228 --> 01:16:45.968
at the Phillip Island
Grand Prix circuit,

1512
01:16:46.068 --> 01:16:48.528
as you can see right now...

1513
01:16:48.628 --> 01:16:51.128
[Renee] We are at the
Shannons SpeedSeries round

1514
01:16:51.228 --> 01:16:52.648
at Phillip Island.

1515
01:16:52.748 --> 01:16:53.848
From the weekend,

1516
01:16:53.948 --> 01:16:56.247
I expect to and
hope to finish.

1517
01:16:56.347 --> 01:16:58.007
That's the main thing.

1518
01:16:58.107 --> 01:17:01.087
We were obviously at Perth,
um, only two weeks ago.

1519
01:17:01.187 --> 01:17:03.567
I stayed clean,
I didn't crash.

1520
01:17:03.667 --> 01:17:06.487
But the track's
low risk in Perth.

1521
01:17:06.587 --> 01:17:07.847
It's going to be pretty
hectic around here

1522
01:17:07.947 --> 01:17:09.986
because it's so fast paced.

1523
01:17:12.266 --> 01:17:15.406
Oh, one thing I do actually want
to do, is I want to stretch.

1524
01:17:15.506 --> 01:17:17.766
Limber up.

1525
01:17:17.866 --> 01:17:19.366
So I've already done
a hundred push ups

1526
01:17:19.466 --> 01:17:21.966
and a four mile jog
this morning. Yeah.

1527
01:17:22.066 --> 01:17:23.885
I wanted to do it before
you all got here.

1528
01:17:23.985 --> 01:17:26.065
I didn't want to, you know,
show anyone up.

1529
01:17:32.065 --> 01:17:33.765
[exhaling]

1530
01:17:33.865 --> 01:17:35.645
[Griffith] You're
four minutes late.

1531
01:17:35.745 --> 01:17:37.744
[Renee] Right.

1532
01:17:43.744 --> 01:17:48.144
[Renee] I'd never driven a
GT car ever, before Perth.

1533
01:17:49.944 --> 01:17:52.103
I'm still learning the car.

1534
01:17:53.543 --> 01:17:55.203
There's a lot of
media attention,

1535
01:17:55.303 --> 01:17:57.663
lots of people obviously
watching and looking.

1536
01:18:00.143 --> 01:18:02.683
What if I did crash?

1537
01:18:02.783 --> 01:18:05.982
All I want to do is prove
myself on the track.

1538
01:18:08.422 --> 01:18:10.662
- [Griffith] Just have fun.
- [Renee] Thanks.

1539
01:18:12.102 --> 01:18:14.342
[crew] Okay,
when you're ready.

1540
01:18:18.142 --> 01:18:20.141
[crew] Comfortable?

1541
01:18:20.701 --> 01:18:21.761
[crew] Cool.

1542
01:18:21.861 --> 01:18:23.861
Let's go ahead and
turn the main on.

1543
01:18:28.061 --> 01:18:30.061
[crew] And then ignition.

1544
01:18:31.381 --> 01:18:34.800
[crew] Oh okay, but I think
we need the ignition on.

1545
01:18:34.900 --> 01:18:36.680
[crew] So obviously
on and off the brakes,

1546
01:18:36.780 --> 01:18:37.520
on and off the brakes.

1547
01:18:37.620 --> 01:18:41.280
And it's not so much as a
build-up, like a Supercar.

1548
01:18:41.380 --> 01:18:43.380
It's just on it.

1549
01:18:45.340 --> 01:18:46.959
That's amazing.

1550
01:18:47.059 --> 01:18:49.059
That's even more
than what I'm after.

1551
01:18:50.779 --> 01:18:51.639
So you can do it. Okay?

1552
01:18:51.739 --> 01:18:52.679
We're about five
minutes off, okay.

1553
01:18:52.779 --> 01:18:54.779
- So I'll give you some...
- Awesome.

1554
01:19:04.258 --> 01:19:06.258
[crew] Are you alright?

1555
01:19:08.298 --> 01:19:11.498
[tense music]

1556
01:19:19.737 --> 01:19:24.757
[crew chattering]

1557
01:19:24.857 --> 01:19:27.537
[crew] Always turns right
going out of the garage.

1558
01:19:35.936 --> 01:19:39.056
[cars revving]

1559
01:19:50.815 --> 01:19:54.555
[cars roaring]

1560
01:19:54.655 --> 01:19:56.754
[commentator] GT World
Challenge, Australia.

1561
01:19:56.854 --> 01:19:59.434
An hour of racing here
at Phillip Island today.

1562
01:19:59.534 --> 01:20:03.354
Nice start, all bunched up
and ready to be unleashed

1563
01:20:03.454 --> 01:20:06.294
on a place that is
perfect for them.

1564
01:20:12.813 --> 01:20:14.673
[commentator] We jump on
board with Renee Gracie,

1565
01:20:14.773 --> 01:20:16.633
she's currently scored
in thirteenth outright.

1566
01:20:16.733 --> 01:20:18.993
Just in front is Darren Currie.

1567
01:20:19.093 --> 01:20:21.033
It's a good little fight.

1568
01:20:21.133 --> 01:20:23.713
[commentator]
Goes for the inside.

1569
01:20:23.813 --> 01:20:26.052
[commentator] Nice pass.
Got the job done.

1570
01:20:32.812 --> 01:20:35.132
[commentator] Puts that
pressure on Samadi.

1571
01:20:37.172 --> 01:20:37.932
[commentator]
Yep, looks like Renee

1572
01:20:37.932 --> 01:20:40.151
takes a position there on,
on Samadhi there.

1573
01:20:40.251 --> 01:20:44.471
So a nice clean move and
we've got - they are off!

1574
01:20:44.571 --> 01:20:47.091
He must not be able to
handle getting beaten by a girl.

1575
01:20:48.131 --> 01:20:48.991
[commentator] Worth noting,

1576
01:20:49.091 --> 01:20:51.551
it looks like Renee Gracie
nearly in the top ten.

1577
01:20:51.651 --> 01:20:54.230
Older generation Audi.
Well done.

1578
01:20:54.330 --> 01:20:56.790
Renee is actually positioned
eleventh outright

1579
01:20:56.890 --> 01:20:57.910
at the moment.

1580
01:20:58.010 --> 01:21:01.470
[crew] She's holding her own
in a lesser model car.

1581
01:21:01.570 --> 01:21:03.730
[crew] She's lapping
the car ahead of her.

1582
01:21:05.170 --> 01:21:09.389
[Griffith] She's surprising
all of us.

1583
01:21:09.489 --> 01:21:10.709
[commentator]
Last lap of the race.

1584
01:21:10.809 --> 01:21:13.549
[commentator]
Renee Gracie pleading for class.

1585
01:21:13.649 --> 01:21:16.029
She's been out of racing for
about seven years.

1586
01:21:16.129 --> 01:21:19.009
What a complete
performance this has been.

1587
01:21:20.929 --> 01:21:23.908
[commentator] A very
exciting finish to this race.

1588
01:21:24.008 --> 01:21:27.188
The final turn. Checkered flag.

1589
01:21:27.288 --> 01:21:30.328
Renee Gracie wins her class.

1590
01:21:34.248 --> 01:21:35.867
I think I nailed it pretty good
for the first time.

1591
01:21:35.967 --> 01:21:37.307
- [crew] Well done.
- Yeah, yeah.

1592
01:21:37.407 --> 01:21:38.887
[Griffith] He and I were sitting
here with smiles on our faces.

1593
01:21:38.887 --> 01:21:39.947
It was good.

1594
01:21:40.047 --> 01:21:42.047
Do you want to get a photo?

1595
01:21:44.767 --> 01:21:46.767
Cheese!

1596
01:21:49.886 --> 01:21:53.486
[cars roaring]
[operatic music]

1597
01:21:58.206 --> 01:22:01.066
[commentator] The roar of
engines fills the grandstand

1598
01:22:01.166 --> 01:22:03.865
here at Sydney Motorsport Park.

1599
01:22:03.965 --> 01:22:07.785
[commentator] And here we go,
they'll run wheel to wheel.

1600
01:22:07.885 --> 01:22:10.505
[commentator] Gracie
ahead of him.

1601
01:22:10.605 --> 01:22:12.265
[Renee] In every other race
I get better and better

1602
01:22:12.365 --> 01:22:13.145
and better and better.

1603
01:22:13.245 --> 01:22:15.505
[commentator] Renee Gracie
just off the back of this group

1604
01:22:15.605 --> 01:22:16.665
and closing.

1605
01:22:16.765 --> 01:22:19.824
[crew] She's been consistent,
hasn't made any mistakes,

1606
01:22:19.924 --> 01:22:22.144
great with her feedback.

1607
01:22:22.244 --> 01:22:23.904
I think she's just going
to get quicker and quicker

1608
01:22:24.004 --> 01:22:25.104
and further up the pack.

1609
01:22:25.204 --> 01:22:26.664
[Renee] I just fell
in love with it.

1610
01:22:26.764 --> 01:22:29.544
I was just having a
ball going racing.

1611
01:22:29.644 --> 01:22:31.104
As Renee started
winning races,

1612
01:22:31.204 --> 01:22:33.263
all of a sudden we're
sitting there thinking,

1613
01:22:33.363 --> 01:22:35.103
you could nearly win
this Championship.

1614
01:22:35.203 --> 01:22:37.303
[Griffith] She's taken on
a car she'd never driven,

1615
01:22:37.403 --> 01:22:39.263
in a category she'd
never been in.

1616
01:22:39.363 --> 01:22:41.723
She's sort of mastered it.

1617
01:22:50.122 --> 01:22:52.182
[man] The OnlyFans
sponsorship -

1618
01:22:52.282 --> 01:22:53.822
Renee isn't the
best role model.

1619
01:22:53.922 --> 01:22:55.182
Hello, how are you?

1620
01:22:55.282 --> 01:22:57.302
[man] For girls who
want to get into racing.

1621
01:22:57.402 --> 01:22:58.982
[Renee] Cheese!

1622
01:22:59.082 --> 01:23:01.261
[man] As for Renee
continuing on

1623
01:23:01.361 --> 01:23:04.461
with her business adventures
while she's in the sport,

1624
01:23:04.561 --> 01:23:05.941
it kind of sends
the wrong message.

1625
01:23:06.041 --> 01:23:08.421
[reporter] The idea of
a Bathurst reboot

1626
01:23:08.521 --> 01:23:09.861
reportedly stalling.

1627
01:23:09.961 --> 01:23:12.981
Publicly, Supercars says
it doesn't discriminate.

1628
01:23:13.081 --> 01:23:15.420
But there are claims
that privately

1629
01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:19.320
officials are dubbing the
situation 'The Gracie Circus'.

1630
01:23:23.160 --> 01:23:25.780
[Renee] People
always criticise me.

1631
01:23:25.880 --> 01:23:28.019
It really doesn't matter
what I do.

1632
01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:29.179
[Griffith] Hey let me
see who's driving.

1633
01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:31.979
- Oh you!
- Oh shit!

1634
01:23:32.079 --> 01:23:34.379
[Renee] But I find myself six
years later, I'm back racing,

1635
01:23:34.479 --> 01:23:35.139
it's just so much fun

1636
01:23:35.239 --> 01:23:37.139
and I've just loved
every second of it.

1637
01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:40.779
That makes me really not care
about anyone else's opinion

1638
01:23:40.879 --> 01:23:43.518
and as long as I'm happy
that's all that matters to me.

1639
01:23:44.678 --> 01:23:46.018
[commentator] And away they go.

1640
01:23:46.118 --> 01:23:47.578
[Renee] I did a GT4 Round,

1641
01:23:47.678 --> 01:23:49.298
so it's basically the
one below GT3.

1642
01:23:49.398 --> 01:23:51.818
[commentator] Renee Gracie's
already picked off

1643
01:23:51.918 --> 01:23:53.058
quite a few competitors.

1644
01:23:53.158 --> 01:23:56.217
She's now got Karl B
absolutely in her sight.

1645
01:23:56.317 --> 01:23:57.657
Looks to the outside.

1646
01:23:57.757 --> 01:23:59.337
Good on her,
she's switching it up.

1647
01:23:59.437 --> 01:24:00.617
She's not just following
the leader through,

1648
01:24:00.717 --> 01:24:02.697
she's trying
a different line.

1649
01:24:02.797 --> 01:24:05.017
[commentator] Ooh, there's
something gone wrong

1650
01:24:05.117 --> 01:24:06.377
with Gracie there.

1651
01:24:06.477 --> 01:24:08.857
[Griffith] We got to the car
when she came into the pits.

1652
01:24:08.957 --> 01:24:11.216
Opened the door thing and
she's about to launch

1653
01:24:11.316 --> 01:24:14.336
and out of her mouth came,
"I can't thank you enough.

1654
01:24:14.436 --> 01:24:17.816
"That's the best fucking fun
I've ever had in a race car."

1655
01:24:17.916 --> 01:24:20.136
[commentator] Gracie
gets underway again.

1656
01:24:20.236 --> 01:24:22.816
Past the
speedcafe.com car.

1657
01:24:22.916 --> 01:24:26.135
There's, uh, Paul Morris
there looking on.

1658
01:24:26.235 --> 01:24:28.495
[commentator] Have a look at
this, Renee Gracie in the 181.

1659
01:24:28.595 --> 01:24:31.735
Up into fifth position.

1660
01:24:31.835 --> 01:24:33.255
[Griffith] She's come from last.

1661
01:24:33.355 --> 01:24:36.295
She's driven through the
pack to fourth outright.

1662
01:24:36.395 --> 01:24:40.454
[commentator] Checkered flag
is out, Renee Gracie fourth.

1663
01:24:40.554 --> 01:24:45.254
It was my best weekend in my
motorsporting career ever.

1664
01:24:45.354 --> 01:24:48.994
It was honestly probably one of
the best weekends of my life.

1665
01:24:50.154 --> 01:24:51.534
[Griffith] As we stand here now

1666
01:24:51.634 --> 01:24:53.733
she's won
eight from eight races.

1667
01:24:53.833 --> 01:24:56.453
So no matter what they
all say, guess what?

1668
01:24:56.553 --> 01:24:59.173
Renee's back.

1669
01:24:59.273 --> 01:25:01.913
Now I just shake it
and spray everyone.

1670
01:25:12.912 --> 01:25:19.452
I have the wildcard
nomination form in front of me

1671
01:25:19.552 --> 01:25:21.091
for Supercars.

1672
01:25:21.191 --> 01:25:24.251
I am getting ready to apply.

1673
01:25:24.351 --> 01:25:27.291
The whole return
was to do a series

1674
01:25:27.391 --> 01:25:32.011
to show that I'm quick and
I want to return to the 1000.

1675
01:25:32.111 --> 01:25:35.010
I actually have a lot
of respect for her

1676
01:25:35.110 --> 01:25:35.930
to come back in.

1677
01:25:36.030 --> 01:25:37.890
Nothing but mad
respect for her.

1678
01:25:37.990 --> 01:25:39.890
Now that I've done the
running that I've done

1679
01:25:39.990 --> 01:25:43.050
in the GT Series -
winning races.

1680
01:25:43.150 --> 01:25:45.690
So I would have enough Super
License points to apply.

1681
01:25:45.790 --> 01:25:47.090
She'll have a Super License.

1682
01:25:47.190 --> 01:25:50.009
Nothing should be stopping her
competing in the Supercars.

1683
01:25:50.109 --> 01:25:54.129
Entry fees for the wildcard
event is $50,000.

1684
01:25:54.229 --> 01:25:57.609
"Provide evidence that the
applicant has financial capacity

1685
01:25:57.709 --> 01:25:59.709
"to operate a wildcard."

1686
01:26:00.789 --> 01:26:02.169
Tick, tick, tick, tick.

1687
01:26:02.269 --> 01:26:05.128
"Outline a proposed marketing
and PR strategy

1688
01:26:05.228 --> 01:26:06.648
"for the wildcard,

1689
01:26:06.748 --> 01:26:09.648
"including assisting Supercars
with local and national media."

1690
01:26:09.748 --> 01:26:12.528
What she will do is she will
bring people to the sport.

1691
01:26:12.628 --> 01:26:13.968
Because back in the day
I used to love watching

1692
01:26:14.068 --> 01:26:15.968
all the big personalities
of our sport.

1693
01:26:16.068 --> 01:26:19.367
There's no one the fans
can really warm to or like

1694
01:26:19.467 --> 01:26:21.647
because it's all
quite sanitised.

1695
01:26:21.747 --> 01:26:22.767
If you want to be on TV

1696
01:26:22.867 --> 01:26:26.607
and you want an audience,
you need entertainment.

1697
01:26:26.707 --> 01:26:30.367
[Renee] We well and truly meet
this wildcard requirement,

1698
01:26:30.467 --> 01:26:32.486
like hands down,
not even a question,

1699
01:26:32.586 --> 01:26:36.646
and I've done it before and
I know that I can do it again.

1700
01:26:36.746 --> 01:26:40.686
The past two years has
been leading to this day.

1701
01:26:40.786 --> 01:26:45.345
To get to this point.
I am ready for it.

1702
01:26:54.825 --> 01:26:56.205
[Renee] I'm on my way
to Griffo's,

1703
01:26:56.305 --> 01:26:59.124
he called me and told me
that he has some news

1704
01:26:59.224 --> 01:27:04.204
about attaching me to a team
for the Bathurst 1000.

1705
01:27:04.304 --> 01:27:06.984
I've got a really
good feeling about it.

1706
01:27:15.143 --> 01:27:20.443
[Griffith] So last week, without
you sort of knowing fully.

1707
01:27:20.543 --> 01:27:21.483
[Renee] Hmm...

1708
01:27:21.583 --> 01:27:26.563
I spoke to a couple of V8
Supercar teams that I know well,

1709
01:27:26.663 --> 01:27:29.162
and I just asked the question.

1710
01:27:29.262 --> 01:27:33.522
If there was a possibility of
a wildcard thing, would...

1711
01:27:33.622 --> 01:27:35.942
And both of them
were interested.

1712
01:27:37.022 --> 01:27:37.922
Okay.

1713
01:27:38.022 --> 01:27:39.722
[Griffith] Then they came
back to me and said,

1714
01:27:39.822 --> 01:27:43.321
they've spoken to V8 and
they've said, "No way".

1715
01:27:43.421 --> 01:27:45.981
They would never give
you a license back.

1716
01:27:49.021 --> 01:27:49.881
Yeah...

1717
01:27:49.981 --> 01:27:51.601
[Renee] So the teams
agreed but Supercars...

1718
01:27:51.701 --> 01:27:54.661
[Griffith] Yes, teams agreed.
Supercars didn't.

1719
01:27:56.300 --> 01:27:57.400
Yep...

1720
01:27:57.500 --> 01:28:00.460
It's done. It's all over.

1721
01:28:01.940 --> 01:28:04.720
It's their show.
They can do it.

1722
01:28:04.820 --> 01:28:06.320
[Griffith]
With all that in mind.

1723
01:28:06.420 --> 01:28:07.480
Yep.

1724
01:28:07.580 --> 01:28:10.439
[Griffith] I think GT racing is
the better thing for you anyway.

1725
01:28:10.539 --> 01:28:11.879
Yep.

1726
01:28:11.979 --> 01:28:16.019
[audio distorts and fades]

1727
01:28:22.219 --> 01:28:25.978
[gentle music]

1728
01:28:28.698 --> 01:28:32.058
[birds calling]

1729
01:28:36.858 --> 01:28:38.877
[Renee] There was
a lot of reasons why

1730
01:28:38.977 --> 01:28:43.317
I wanted to return to the 1000.

1731
01:28:43.417 --> 01:28:46.837
I really felt that within myself
if I had the best of everything

1732
01:28:46.937 --> 01:28:49.017
I really could have
proved myself.

1733
01:28:54.176 --> 01:28:58.636
It was the perfect time
to finally come back,

1734
01:28:58.736 --> 01:29:00.896
and take a stand.

1735
01:29:04.496 --> 01:29:09.435
But fighting an industry that
has power, that has money,

1736
01:29:09.535 --> 01:29:12.635
that has the strength to fight
back and, you know,

1737
01:29:12.735 --> 01:29:13.915
you're just a small fish.

1738
01:29:14.015 --> 01:29:16.015
It's, it's virtually impossible.

1739
01:29:20.054 --> 01:29:23.594
I wanted to return to make
an industry and a sport

1740
01:29:23.694 --> 01:29:27.594
that is so set in its ways,
change its ways.

1741
01:29:27.694 --> 01:29:32.094
But it's almost impossible to
get through or to break it.

1742
01:29:34.053 --> 01:29:37.173
There's literally nothing
that I can do about it.

1743
01:29:44.413 --> 01:29:46.953
[commentator] <i>Great battles,
fierce performance</i>

1744
01:29:47.053 --> 01:29:49.552
<i>and cementing yourself
in the history books.</i>

1745
01:29:49.652 --> 01:29:55.392
<i>Brace yourself Australia for
another Bathurst 1000.</i>

1746
01:29:55.492 --> 01:29:58.172
[muffled commentary]

1747
01:30:03.371 --> 01:30:05.911
[Renee] Simona de Silvestro
was chosen

1748
01:30:06.011 --> 01:30:08.891
for the wildcard
entry at Bathurst.

1749
01:30:10.291 --> 01:30:13.971
She's the only girl to
race since we raced.

1750
01:30:16.770 --> 01:30:18.430
[commentator] <i>But oh no,
we've got drama</i>

1751
01:30:18.530 --> 01:30:19.630
<i>on the Top of the Mountain.</i>

1752
01:30:19.730 --> 01:30:23.150
<i>Oh, he hits the back of
Simona de Silvestro's car</i>

1753
01:30:23.250 --> 01:30:25.910
<i>and she's been spun
around off the track.</i>

1754
01:30:26.010 --> 01:30:30.029
<i>I'm not sure that
was a legal move.</i>

1755
01:30:30.129 --> 01:30:36.009
[Renee] Ooh, it's clearly the
exact same as when I left.

1756
01:30:39.689 --> 01:30:40.989
[Renee] On the other side,

1757
01:30:41.089 --> 01:30:43.788
the GT offered basically
everything and anything

1758
01:30:43.888 --> 01:30:46.408
that, um, Supercars
never offered.

1759
01:30:48.168 --> 01:30:52.688
I have had so much fun
this year - GT racing.

1760
01:30:54.848 --> 01:30:56.588
It's to the point where
it's like, why would I,

1761
01:30:56.688 --> 01:30:58.687
why would I go back?

1762
01:30:59.647 --> 01:31:01.647
Fuck Supercars!

1763
01:31:04.367 --> 01:31:08.927
[funky music]

1764
01:31:12.966 --> 01:31:16.246
[Renee] We are at
Queensland Raceway.

1765
01:31:18.126 --> 01:31:22.066
The pressure is on
for the Championship.

1766
01:31:22.166 --> 01:31:24.786
All she has to do
today is finish.

1767
01:31:24.886 --> 01:31:28.585
She finishes this, she's going
to tie this Championship up

1768
01:31:28.685 --> 01:31:32.025
and be a title holder.

1769
01:31:32.125 --> 01:31:34.525
And she'll be the
first girl to do it. Yep.

1770
01:31:37.165 --> 01:31:39.105
This is a track where
tyres explode

1771
01:31:39.205 --> 01:31:41.744
and like rupture
quite often.

1772
01:31:41.844 --> 01:31:44.264
They just go bang and
cause lots of damage

1773
01:31:44.364 --> 01:31:45.744
because you're going
like kilometres an hour

1774
01:31:45.844 --> 01:31:48.524
through a corner.
You can crash.

1775
01:31:49.844 --> 01:31:51.464
[Renee] There's always a
chance you won't finish

1776
01:31:51.564 --> 01:31:52.864
and that's motorsport.

1777
01:31:52.964 --> 01:31:56.483
It could be mechanical,
someone could take you out.

1778
01:31:59.403 --> 01:32:01.183
But I want to do this.

1779
01:32:01.283 --> 01:32:02.903
I want to win the
Championship.

1780
01:32:03.003 --> 01:32:05.003
[engine starting]

1781
01:32:07.163 --> 01:32:08.862
[car accelerating]

1782
01:32:08.962 --> 01:32:11.082
[Renee] I really,
really want this.

1783
01:32:21.362 --> 01:32:25.881
[steady breathing]

1784
01:32:30.681 --> 01:32:32.301
[commentator]
Away we go.

1785
01:32:32.401 --> 01:32:35.061
Fanatec GT World
Challenge Australia.

1786
01:32:35.161 --> 01:32:37.180
Look at them into one!

1787
01:32:37.280 --> 01:32:39.780
Tander, bit of
a contact there.

1788
01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:42.420
Game on!

1789
01:32:42.520 --> 01:32:43.980
[commentator] Banging doors,
side by side,

1790
01:32:44.080 --> 01:32:46.080
still on the exit of Turn 2.

1791
01:32:50.519 --> 01:32:52.899
[commentator] You can see the
cars really bouncing around

1792
01:32:52.999 --> 01:32:54.939
on the way into Turn 1.

1793
01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:57.199
Picking up a little bit of
dust and dirt and salt.

1794
01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:02.419
[commentator] Renee Gracie,
leading class.

1795
01:33:02.519 --> 01:33:04.378
Remember, eyeing up the title.

1796
01:33:04.478 --> 01:33:06.698
Alright, Abbie's
come off the road

1797
01:33:06.798 --> 01:33:09.938
and Ross Poulakis spun
as well, that's Turn 1.

1798
01:33:10.038 --> 01:33:11.338
[Ray] Oooh...

1799
01:33:11.438 --> 01:33:13.698
[commentator]
Fires across to the infield.

1800
01:33:13.798 --> 01:33:16.898
That is terrifying.

1801
01:33:16.998 --> 01:33:19.617
[commentator] Cars moving
around on cold tyres.

1802
01:33:19.717 --> 01:33:20.697
It is hot and slick out there

1803
01:33:20.797 --> 01:33:24.057
so could it be affecting
their balance.

1804
01:33:24.157 --> 01:33:26.137
Oh, another wild moment.

1805
01:33:26.237 --> 01:33:28.677
[Griffiths] We're a little
nervous at the moment.

1806
01:33:32.277 --> 01:33:35.836
[commentator] Oh yeah.
Oh nasty incident there...

1807
01:33:37.996 --> 01:33:40.256
[commentator] Riding on board
with Renee Gracie at the moment,

1808
01:33:40.356 --> 01:33:42.216
chasing down another car.

1809
01:33:42.316 --> 01:33:42.836
[Tayla] Come on, Renee.

1810
01:33:42.836 --> 01:33:44.736
Come on, get up on
the inside of him.

1811
01:33:44.836 --> 01:33:45.976
[Ray] She's got him
right in that corner.

1812
01:33:46.076 --> 01:33:47.335
She's held him
through that turn.

1813
01:33:47.435 --> 01:33:49.415
Now she's got to get him
on the straight again.

1814
01:33:49.515 --> 01:33:51.455
Hold him on the straight.

1815
01:33:51.555 --> 01:33:53.335
I was trying to understand
what he was saying.

1816
01:33:53.435 --> 01:33:58.295
I was doing this,
"Yes, the straight, yes."

1817
01:33:58.395 --> 01:34:01.974
[Commentator] Oh, another puff
of dusk on the exit of Turn 5.

1818
01:34:02.074 --> 01:34:03.614
Oh God.

1819
01:34:03.714 --> 01:34:08.334
[commentator] I think
we have an Audi off.

1820
01:34:08.434 --> 01:34:10.994
[commentator] Let's look here
on the replay Moff.

1821
01:34:12.434 --> 01:34:14.953
[commentator]
Oh so it was through Turn 6.

1822
01:34:27.193 --> 01:34:29.232
[roaring]

1823
01:34:34.232 --> 01:34:35.492
[commentator] A minute,
forty-five to go.

1824
01:34:35.592 --> 01:34:38.992
We're running out of laps.
Race to the finish.

1825
01:34:40.992 --> 01:34:42.452
[commentator] It's just
a matter of finishing

1826
01:34:42.552 --> 01:34:45.891
and she has not put a foot
wrong so far in this race.

1827
01:34:45.991 --> 01:34:47.991
[commentator]
Oh, off he goes.

1828
01:34:49.831 --> 01:34:52.011
Come on, Renee.

1829
01:34:52.111 --> 01:34:54.091
[commentator] Heading to
the checkered flag,

1830
01:34:54.191 --> 01:34:55.651
the final one
of the weekend.

1831
01:34:55.751 --> 01:34:58.730
Fanatec GT World
Challenge Australia.

1832
01:34:58.830 --> 01:35:01.010
[commentator]
Takes the checker!

1833
01:35:01.110 --> 01:35:04.570
[crowd cheering
and applauding]

1834
01:35:04.670 --> 01:35:06.610
Oh, she's going to be
fucking happy.

1835
01:35:06.710 --> 01:35:08.690
[commentator] An Australian
title coming her way

1836
01:35:08.790 --> 01:35:11.649
after that result and a great
reflection of the season

1837
01:35:11.749 --> 01:35:13.749
that she's had.

1838
01:35:14.709 --> 01:35:16.569
That's cool, that's really cool.

1839
01:35:16.669 --> 01:35:20.369
That's a Championship all
locked up, done and dusted.

1840
01:35:20.469 --> 01:35:22.809
Yep.

1841
01:35:22.909 --> 01:35:24.609
[reporter] The title
for the Championship.

1842
01:35:24.709 --> 01:35:26.928
Renee, congratulations.
How's that sit with you?

1843
01:35:27.028 --> 01:35:28.608
Thank you.
Yeah, it's, uh, surreal.

1844
01:35:28.708 --> 01:35:29.888
I don't think it's sunk in yet.

1845
01:35:29.988 --> 01:35:33.008
I think it's deserving for
Griffo, the boys,

1846
01:35:33.108 --> 01:35:33.988
everyone who's
helped me this year

1847
01:35:33.988 --> 01:35:34.968
and taken me under his wing

1848
01:35:35.068 --> 01:35:39.048
and I can't return it any other
way except maybe a Championship.

1849
01:35:39.148 --> 01:35:40.887
- I'm going to go to the podium.
- It's already done.

1850
01:35:40.987 --> 01:35:43.647
Oh shit!
Maybe they can wait for me.

1851
01:35:43.747 --> 01:35:46.287
Sorry I had to do
hair and makeup.

1852
01:35:46.387 --> 01:35:47.807
[crew] Just put your suit
on for the podium.

1853
01:35:47.907 --> 01:35:49.127
Oh shit.
See everyone's rushing me.

1854
01:35:49.227 --> 01:35:51.287
Didn't even get to
straighten my hair.

1855
01:35:51.387 --> 01:35:52.847
Bloody stitch up.

1856
01:35:52.947 --> 01:35:54.006
[announcer] Now
on to the trophy class.

1857
01:35:54.106 --> 01:35:57.586
Winner in the trophy class,
Renee Gracie!

1858
01:35:58.226 --> 01:36:00.226
Yes!

1859
01:36:04.746 --> 01:36:06.686
[Renee] I definitely think
I've reignited

1860
01:36:06.786 --> 01:36:08.445
what I already knew
that I had.

1861
01:36:08.545 --> 01:36:11.725
And I've just loved
every second of it.

1862
01:36:11.825 --> 01:36:14.485
Thanks guys. It's all yours.
Have a swig.

1863
01:36:14.585 --> 01:36:17.205
[Renee] Now naturally I just
can't stop thinking about

1864
01:36:17.305 --> 01:36:19.445
next year and the year
after and the year after.

1865
01:36:19.545 --> 01:36:21.624
[Tayla] Yay!

1866
01:36:23.744 --> 01:36:29.124
[Renee] The change for women
will have to come from time.

1867
01:36:29.224 --> 01:36:32.284
[Ray] I've had more hugs today
than I've had in two years.

1868
01:36:32.384 --> 01:36:34.844
[Renee] All the old school
heads of departments,

1869
01:36:34.944 --> 01:36:37.043
time will slowly flush
all of them out

1870
01:36:37.143 --> 01:36:40.383
and it will bring through
new generations.

1871
01:36:41.423 --> 01:36:42.243
They'll have to retire,

1872
01:36:42.343 --> 01:36:44.443
they can't keep working
when they're eighty.

1873
01:36:44.543 --> 01:36:46.723
Really great on Turn 2.

1874
01:36:46.823 --> 01:36:48.283
[all laughing]

1875
01:36:48.383 --> 01:36:50.642
[Ray] As you would bloody know.

1876
01:36:50.742 --> 01:36:53.442
[Ray] There was times
in Go Karting

1877
01:36:53.542 --> 01:36:55.962
that were just spectacular.

1878
01:36:56.062 --> 01:36:59.482
There was times in Porsche
that were spectacular.

1879
01:36:59.582 --> 01:37:02.442
But now she's achieved
what I believe

1880
01:37:02.542 --> 01:37:04.541
she was always
capable of.

1881
01:37:05.061 --> 01:37:07.061
Winning.

1882
01:37:12.661 --> 01:37:14.661
No tissues.

1883
01:37:15.021 --> 01:37:16.521
Bloody hell.

1884
01:37:16.621 --> 01:37:17.880
It's ridiculous.

1885
01:37:17.980 --> 01:37:19.520
Thank God you're not
going to put this on film

1886
01:37:19.620 --> 01:37:21.620
because no one
will believe you.

1887
01:37:24.020 --> 01:37:26.020
It's about Renee.

1888
01:37:28.740 --> 01:37:31.620
[upbeat music]